Honestly, I myself don’t know and I don’t think he does, either. At this point he seems so unsure about everything he’s done so far. All of the arrogance that sustained him once before is falling to his feet and he’s watching everything he held close being snatched away.
Throughout the book- - well, after Rosa died, Esteban represented everything that was inherently wrong with society in his time. Because of his political stature, he was able to take anything he wanted, or treat anyone anyway he wanted and no one would bat an eye. He represented authority and power, yes, but at its core it was corrupted. In the earlier half of the book, at the height of his life as a bachelor, just before he decided he needed to take a wife (to fulfil his own desires), anything he wanted he could steal. But the more Clara became engraved in his life the more he was shown that the power he had could only stretch so far.
The women in this book are shown to have more power than the men (over the men) in a way that is subtly scary, and I’m so sad that it wasn’t displayed in greater ways. The older Esteban gets the more clearly he sees how terribly he treated his family. I find it funny that he comes to this conclusion after seeing the final state of Trés Marias. He doubts whether this coup was the right way to go and doesn’t really decide that it was until it directly affected him by killing Jaime.
This could be stretch, but I feel like just how Clara was supernaturally woven into the house, Esteban is woven into the society that he once stood so firmly for. Just as he starts to wither and decay, and rethink almost everything his life has been reduced to, the world around him comes crashing down.
What do you think, am I making sense??
I commented on Drew’s and Addison’s posts.
Throughout the book- - well, after Rosa died, Esteban represented everything that was inherently wrong with society in his time. Because of his political stature, he was able to take anything he wanted, or treat anyone anyway he wanted and no one would bat an eye. He represented authority and power, yes, but at its core it was corrupted. In the earlier half of the book, at the height of his life as a bachelor, just before he decided he needed to take a wife (to fulfil his own desires), anything he wanted he could steal. But the more Clara became engraved in his life the more he was shown that the power he had could only stretch so far.
The women in this book are shown to have more power than the men (over the men) in a way that is subtly scary, and I’m so sad that it wasn’t displayed in greater ways. The older Esteban gets the more clearly he sees how terribly he treated his family. I find it funny that he comes to this conclusion after seeing the final state of Trés Marias. He doubts whether this coup was the right way to go and doesn’t really decide that it was until it directly affected him by killing Jaime.
This could be stretch, but I feel like just how Clara was supernaturally woven into the house, Esteban is woven into the society that he once stood so firmly for. Just as he starts to wither and decay, and rethink almost everything his life has been reduced to, the world around him comes crashing down.
What do you think, am I making sense??
I commented on Drew’s and Addison’s posts.
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