How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Except for that, she thought there were no better-reared daughters. "They' re perfect," she was frequently heard to say. "Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer." (2.15)
Isn't Pura Vicario the best mom ever? Of course it's a good idea to teach your daughters that their entire life should be suffering. Who needs feminism?
Quote #5
Angela Vicario never forgot the horror of the night on which her parents and her older sisters with their husbands, gathered together in the parlor, imposed on her the obligation to marry a man whom she had barely seen. The twins stayed out of it. "It looked to us like woman problems," Pablo Vicario told me. (2.19)
So, yeah, all kinds of wrong here. But why do you think Pablo and Pedro assumed that these were "woman problems?" What exactly are women problems anyway? Why isn't the matter of Angela's virginity a woman problem?
Quote #6
"The only thing I prayed to God for was to give me the courage to kill myself," Angela Vicario told me. "But he didn't give it to me." (2.38)
Besides being super sad, this quote gives us an insight into exactly how this society values virginity. Based on Angela's reaction, we can tell that the culture values the virginity of a woman over her life. This might seem completely ridiculous, but can you think of any similar situations in our modern society?