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Many of the writings of Maria Luisa Bombal relate themes common to her upbringing in Chile and the authors own feelings about the conflicts for women raised in a paternalistic society. This 5 page paper outlines a comparison between some of her works, including The House of Mist and The Shrouded Woman. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Unlike many authors in Latin America, Bombal often focuses on the issues that relate to the struggles for middle and upper-class citizens, rather than for the indigenous peoples or
women in poverty. Stories like The House of Mist and The Shrouded Woman relate the theme of conflict in a paternalistic society and the conflicts for women who struggle
against traditional roles. What makes Bombals stories so different than many authors of feminist literature, especially in Latin America, is that Bombal separates herself from the realist movement of
the 19th century and brings a sense of the surreal, the fantastical, into her works. Both The House of Mist and The Shrouded Woman support their thematic development with
a conceptual perspective linked to the supernatural. Bombals story The Shrouded Woman is a short novel (novella) with very brief chapters that uses this format to address the theme
of female constraints and societal roles through the views of a dead woman who looks down upon her life and at the events of her life in the past.
In this story, the central character, Ana Maria, sees her deathbed and all of the people in her past seem present there. She begins to explore the events of
her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, then, seems a culmination of the events and
people who she experiences, and this is a distinct element brought about through the construction of this story. At her own wake, Ana Maria views the significant people
of her past, including her past loves. She also recounts a vivid family history, stories of betrayal and loss, that become a part of how the reader knows this
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