Like Water For Chocolate Literary Analysis

In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel argues that the preservation of family traditions presents consistent dilemmas throughout the generation’s lifetime through conflicting emotions and relationships. Esquivel support her argument by illustrating scenarios throughout a range of twenty two years where two sisters, Tita and Rosaura both find themselves romantically competing for the attention of a man, Pedro who has only ever been infatuated with Tita, a young women restricted by a family tradition into being forbidden from marriage until her mother has passed away. The author’s purpose in designing this plot is to emphasize how tradition does not need to be upheld in all cases in order to express how the importance of an