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In four pages this paper presents an analysis of Esteban Trueba, the main male character in Isabel Allende’s classic novel The House of the Spirits and examines how the author employs character development elements to reveal Esteban’s character. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Valle families, there is one strong male character placed "at the center of the... action" (Cox 41). Patriarch Esteban Trueba is an iron-willed and bigoted tyrant that regards people
as possessions to be manipulated and controlled as he sees fit. His aggressive acts shock his wife (and novel protagonist) Clara into a lengthy silence as she withdraws from
lifes harsh realities and into a fantasy world of spells and spirits. While the women in the novel generate considerable sympathy, Esteban remains largely unsympathetic. He rapes and
pillages women to achieve his own sexual gratification, discards them after they give birth to his children as if they are garbage, refuses to acknowledge his illegitimate children, and exploits
the peasant class to achieve his own material gain. But Esteban Truebas stark portrait sketches the story of Latin Americas clashes among gender and socioeconomic classes Isabel Allende wishes
to tell. The author employs narrative as a way of emphasizing these historical conflicts by interspersing Estebans first-person observations with the third-person musings of his granddaughter Alba (Jehenson 102).
These male and female voices represent the growing chasm between male and female perspectives that developed in Latin America at this time. Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her
literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and generation of Latin patriarchs whose women were to handle domestic affairs and raise the children,
dabbling in spiritual matters if interested by staying out of politics and public life" (Cox 45). Women were limited by their gender, but as Allende reminds her readers in
the characterization of Esteban, so were men. He represents "the narrow choice of masculine roles available in early modern Latin culture" (Cox 38). Esteban must be strong at all
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