The Characters Of Rebeca In The Carto, By Pietro Crespi

Rebeca 's most important relationship is the one that she shares with Pietro Crespi at the beginning of the novel, as he not only introduces her to the formalities of life and love, he teaches her to change her habits in such a way that by her story 's end, she knows how to differentiate between what she should have and what she desires.
When we are first introduced to the character of Rebeca, her origins are very unknown. She is essentially the baby that is mysteriously "dropped on a doorstep," only she is eleven years old and has a very large appetite for dirt and whitewash and a habit of sucking her finger. Not only that, her social skills are left with little to be desired, rarely speaking to any members of her newfound family (Marquez 42). This makes any

"But she persevered, overcome by the growing anxiety, and little by little she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals, the unbridled satisfaction of what was the original food" (Marquez 63). This affirms that Rebeca does not eat the ground for its taste, but out of instinct. She associates normal habits and food and dancing with Pietro, and when he leaves and is no longer able to provide these comforts for Rebeca, she reverts back to partaking what comforted her originally, the habits of her past. The less hopeful Pietro 's return seems, the more dirt she eats in an attempt to mask the pain. But he eventually does return, this time as Rebeca 's fiancé, and Rebeca abandons her old customs once more. She is on the track to becoming a normal woman in Macondo, married to a well-respected husband and financially taken care for. Pietro is not only her first lover but the man who gives her the promise of a future that her family and she may not have necessarily envisioned when she was an