Foreshadowing In The Stolen Party

In her story “The Stolen Party”, Liliana Heker uses foreshadowing to illustrate how life boundaries between the social classes can’t be overcome, even with friendship. She first settle that idea of boundaries in the beginning when Rosaura has a conversation with her mother about going to the birthday party of her “friend” Luciana, who is the daughter of her mother’s employer. Rosaura is convinced she can be friends with Luciana even if she’s way more wealthy than her, but her mother isn’t that naïve. Rosaura’s mother told her “That one’s not your friend” and that all she really is to those people is “the maid’s daughter, that’s what.” Heker drew attention to the mother’s warning about the rough reality and the way Rosaura doesn’t believe her