... superior positions, but behind their fazade, lay the influence of women due to their dependence on women. Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, depict that the power of men had is actually an illusion. The decisions that men make are bounded by their sexual ... .At the beginning of the book, Victoria Guzman, the cook in the family, "had been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence-(Marquez 8), even in her daughter fell victim. As Ibrahim Nasar was leaving, he "grabbed the full of her pussy-. They were n...

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