Like Water for Chocolate Family Quotes

This is in reference to Morning Light, John's Indigenous grandmother. Again, we see how the children spend most of their time with mothers or mother figures, and that the father is absent (in both Mexican and North American cultures).

Family=fear. Is this true only for women? Only in Mexican culture? What bad things could happen to women if they leave the house?

Nooooo. The worst thing to be in the De la Garza family, especially when Rosaura decides to continue the dreaded tradition. So much for the name "Hope."