Jordan Trueba Character Analysis

In the novel, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, the author illustrates the life of people in Chile in the 20th century through the narrators Esteban Trueba and Alba Trueba. In this novel, the author’s purpose is to make the reader be conscious of how divergent the perspectives of the male characters are from one another. By stylistically choosing to use the literary analysis of characterization to characterize Jaime Trueba as selflessly caring, Allende creates a feeling of fondness and admiration in the reader towards him, and through her use of visual imagery, and contrast between Jaime’s view of charity and his father, Esteban Trueba’s view of charity.
A way that Allende portrays Jaime as altruistically considerate to create a
For example, when Jaime and Esteban Trueba are having a conversation about the values of charity, Esteban told his son that he was “a hopeless loser” because he has “no sense of reality” due to him having “never taken stock of how the world really is” and by “put[ing] your [Jaime’s] faith in utopian values that doesn’t even exist” because “[c]harity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong who make up the rules think like you” (297). However, when Jaime defends his opinions by stating, “Helping one’s neighbor is a value that exists” but not only that, Jaime is at a point “where they [Jaime and Clara] have lost count of how many people they were caring for; they were surprised whenever somebody appeared at the door to thank them for a favor they could not recall” (221). On the one hand, Esteban Trueba’s blood runs in Jaime’s veins, but Esteban’s perspective of providing aid for destitute people is looked upon as useless. The terms “hopeless” meaning wretched, “invention of weak” meaning the creation of the fragile, “exploit the strong” meaning the use of the strong promotes how Esteban postulates charity. He surmises that nothing in the world is an act of benignity for spontaneous, but rather premeditated for the benefit of the person providing the help. On the other hand, Jaime totally disagrees with his