How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Even after they'd been married and had their own families and often couldn't make it for other occasions, the four daughters always came home for their father's birthday. [...] Surely their husbands could spare them for one overnight? (1.2.1)
The García family is really tight. Even after the girls grow up and have families of their own, their childhood family—Papi, Mami, and the four girls—is still kind of like an exclusive club that no one else can join.
Quote #2
Why not checks? the daughters would wonder later, gossiping together in the bedroom, counting their money to make sure the father wasn't playing favorites. (1.2.5)
Ah, sibling rivalry. You never grow out of it.
Quote #3
After all her hard work, she was not to be included in the daughter count. Damn him! She'd take her turn and make him know it was her! (1.2.61)
So Sigmund Freud, the founder of a branch of psychology called psychoanalysis, had this idea that we call the "Electra Complex." It's the theory that all little girls are in sexual competition with their mother for their father's attention. Weird, right? Whether you buy it or not, this idea has been enormously influential. And it seems to explain what's going on here between Fifi and her dad.