Like Water For Chocolate Feminist Analysis

Have you ever thought what it would be like for the youngest daughter to not be able to have freedom and not marry? Well, today I’m going to share with you how “Like Water For Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel is a feminist novel. A feminist is a person who believes that all women should receive the same privileges and treatment as men. The novel “Like Water For Chocolate” has mainly directed towards following family traditions which is where the feminism appears. I strongly believe that the novel “Like Water For Chocolate” is a feminist novel based on the characters, Tita and Mama Elena. Tita in “Like Water For Chocolate” is a feminist character because she was substantially always in the kitchen cooking and cleaning up. “Tita was literally washed into this world on a great tide of tears that spilled over the edge of the table and flooded across the kitchen floor” (8). This quotation pertains to Tita always in the kitchen, and in the novel, there was never any man working in the kitchen. “Tita was the last link in a chain of cooks who had been
“Senorita Tita, I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to be alone with you and tell you I’m deeply in love with you” (18). Ironically, Tita was obliged to be in love with Pedro whether the tradition of the youngest daughter being unable to marry was present or not. “I’m going to break with it several more times if I have to.. I had the same right to marry as you did.. You had no right to stand between two people deeply in love” (213). Moreover, Tita was speaking to Rosaura about her determination on marrying Pedro. Tita and Rosaura were arguing over Pedro, because Pedro truly loved Tita, but could not marry her based on the family tradition that the youngest daughter could not marry and would have to take care of her mother until the day she