mselves entirely- heart and soul. The love that both of these characters embody with regards to the other is so grand that it makes them do irrational and unnatural things. Love will risk anything, change anything, create or destroy anything. Pedro’s act of approving Rosaura for marriage only to be close to Tita is an act of love that took great courage from him but still remains delicate when judged. It can be understood as an act of machismo from him, however, he claims otherwise to his father: “I am only going to marry out of a great love for Tita that will never die”(15). Pedro indeed keeps this promise. Not only because he waited as long as possible to have intercourse with Rosaura after marriage, but because even after all the years that passed, he never lapsed Tita’s presence from within him, and as soon as they reunited they resumed the love that they once triggered. Tita’s approach to manifesting her love is through her food. It is said that “the way to a man’s heart is through a woman’s hearth,” and noticeably, Tita did just that (Grieve 1). She captivated Pedro with many of her meals, but especially with the Quail in Rose Petal:With that meal, it seemed they had discovered a new systemof communication, in which Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which the singular sexual message was passed(52).This dinner was the confirmation of their passion. Through it, they penetrated each other to the farthest corners of their being, and all the while, they could not take their eyes of each other. Just their looks made their senses vibrate all through out. Moreover, Tita’s breasts are constantly described to be aroused by Pedro’s mere presence: “With this amorous look of ecstasy…Pedro had transformed Tita’s breasts from chaste to experienced flesh, without even touching th...
