... are mirrored in the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende through the Trueba Families triumphs, afflictions, and day to day life. The major characters in The House of the Spirits come from two opposing classes, the aristocracy and the peasants. This aspect becomes a direct correlation of the socialists verses the conservatives. Most of the population of Latin America, as well as all of the characters in the novel, belong to one of these two classes. Almost all of the characters in the story belong to ... either the del Valle-Trueba ... ...

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