The Time Of Butterflies: A Literary Analysis

"’I think you deserve your very own life,’ she is saying, waving my protest away. ‘Let me finish. You're still living in the past, Dedé. You're in the same old house, surrounded by the same old things, in the same little village, with all the people who have known you since you were this big.’” (Alvarez 312-313). The past in it’s denotative meaning is one as unthreatening as meanings go, but apply it to gender roles, and it has the power to regress the advancements of generations of women. Dedé’s failure to look to the future is a microcosm of the lack of change yielded by greater womankind, keeping them from living their “‘very own life’”. Of Mice and Men, Othello, and In the Time of Butterflies reflect the confinements surrounding the life