Allende's Role Of Women And Gender Roles In Latin American Culture

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In American society we have a pretty equal opportunity for men and women regarding gender roles. However, if you look back at history in the 50’s,60’s and 70’s gender roles were very different. When I woman got married in these day’s they were bound to the house. Which in terms that I think of it as is they were house slaves. I say this because they had to do the laundry, clean the house, take care of the children and make sure dinner was cooked for the man. The males on the other hand were the breadwinners and their job was to go out and support the family. They would go out to find jobs, whether it be close to home our miles away. The biggest reason for this cultural trend was the lack of education for women during this time. Many woman …show more content…

The character who I want to focus on is Fuerla, which is Esteban 's brother in the story. In chapter two you get a real good insight of how she felt. When her father dies, and her mother was struck with a illness she took the nurse figure to take care of her. She also took on the motherhood of raising Esteba, taking him for strolls, sleeping with him, and sewing from dawn till dusk in order to pay for his schooling. They had a very close relationship until he took a job at a office and ever since then he drifted away from her. On page 45 you really see how being a women is very stressful because she says “ I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too”. You really see how being a women is a stressful lifestyle because there life never seems to change, whereas Esteban get to go out in the world and make something of …show more content…

We have read 8 chapter of this story and you can tell that their family is very big. Esteban in Chapter 2 goes out to Tres Martires to go make money, and with the money he earns he sends a good chunk of it to his sister and mother for her medical bills. In Chapter 7 when the boys Nicolas and Jaime return from boarding school they come back home to live with Clara and Esteban. They help out around the house and help out at Tres Martires. You also see when Nicolas has a girlfriend named Amanda she and her brother move in to be apart of the family. Everything that has happened in the story is all family

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