Analysis Of Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel’s novel, Like Water for Chocolate, is set during the Mexican Revolution, which is the background of the novel. “The threat of the revolution hung over them, bringing famine and death in its wake. But for those few moments they all seemed determined to forget the bullets flying in the village” (Esquivel 36). Laura Esquivel uses the struggle of the Mexican Revolution as a parallel with the struggle of Tita De la Garza, as she struggles to overcome the “ultimogeniture” tradition and the patriarchal theme, by reversing gender roles and making the women the strong characters (Robichaux 150). The Mexican people want to get away from the dictatorship that has held them, much like how Tita wants to get away from Mama Elena, but because