sent the magical aspect of the book and bring about supernatural aspect of the feminist characters. Because magic is seen as a natural power, its mystism is found within the female characters primarily to demonstrate their organic qualities.“ Esteban Garcia. Who was destined to play a terrible role in the history of the family.” (140, Ch 4)The prediction and characterization of Esteban Garcia’s over domineering character develop the plot by introducing his character and forcing the reader to wonder about what conflicts he will present to the family or simply to Esteban Trueba in the future years. His reappearances are then related to this quote in attempts to piece together his climb to high military ranks and eventually to a placement with the ability of ruining the Trueba household. “They looked at each other disconcertedly, feeling for the first in their lives that they were practically strangers.” (145, Ch 4) This excerpt is ironic in that it seems that every time they meet from here on out, they always feel as if they are strangers. Because so much time passes often between their meetings, their physical and ideological changes affect their standing relationship. The quote goes deeper in defining the barrier between love found within the novel. These lines highlight the idea of politics separating true love, which separates these lovers for significant amounts of time, ruining a what could have been very happy marriage and love life for many peaceful years. “ . . . the stupidest things can be set to music. You’d be better off learning love songs.” (154, Ch 5) Significance is seen in the notion that Esteban accuses Pedro Tercero Garcia of playing communist songs and therefore spreading the idea of socialism to the rest of the community like an infection. What he doesn’t realize is that first, Pedro Tercero constructed these ideas himself and hence poses a larger problem than anti...
