Philippine Literature
IMAGES OF FILIPINO WOMEN IN SELECTED SHORT STORIES
Presented to:
Dr. Ruel Bonganciso
Presented by:
Nicah Claire C. Faur
Jona Joyce Azucena
II – 1 BSE- ENGLISH
A.Y 2014 - 2015
“IMAGES OF FILIPINO WOMEN IN SELECTED SHORT STORIES”
Title: Dead Stars
By: Paz Marquez Benitez
Female Characters:
Esperanza – engaged for four years and then became the wife of Alfredo Salazar.
She is a homely woman, literal-minded and intensely acquisitive.
She is one of those fortunate women who have the gift of uniformly beauty.
Julia Salas – the woman Alfredo fell in love with and the sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle.
She is the other girl of Alfredo Salazar who remains single in her entire life.
Julia Salas is a smart girl in a way that she just let go after she knew that Alfredo is engaged to Esperanza.
Carmen – Carmen is the sister of Alfredo Salazar and the daughter of Don Julian. She is sensitive to what others might feel and she care towards Esperanza.
She also has this “wide” understanding.
Donna Adelia – sister of Julia Salas, she is small and plump but a pretty woman with a complexion of a baby with an expression of a cow.
Brigida Samuy – she is the illusive woman whose Alfredo is looking for.
Title: The Small Key
By: Paz Latorena
Female Characters:
Soledad – (also Choleng) a woman who’s on her pass twenties. She is the second wife of Pedro. She is curious and discontented on what she knows about his husband’s past marriage.
She worries that those things she found in the trunk owned by his husband will destroy their relationship, and so she still managed to burn all those things.
Tia Maria – she is the housemaid of Pedro and Soledad.
She also helped Pedro in taking care of his wife Soledad when Soledad was not feeling well.
Title: Harvest
By: Loreto Paras – Sulit
Female Characters:
Miss Francia – She is a tall woman