When faced with the obstacle of trying to find ones self in a deteriorating world filled with racial Inequality based on skin color patriarchal control and female sexual repression in the pursuit of happiness individuality gets distorted and sexual indeciviness erupts causing a multitude of questioning about ones own identity in relation to the rest of the world Therefore in the collection The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen the main characters Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry in Passing are fo
The story of Titas entry into the world marks the first fantastical image of Like Water for Chocolate initiating the reader into the novels magical realism and illustrating the intensity and improbability that characterize the events of the story The image of Tita flowing into the world in a flood of tears prefigures the sadness and longing that will pervade her life After Titas birth the flood of tears dries to leave ten pounds of salt to be collected and used for cooking The practical attitud