In the novella, it is claimed that before Angela was married, she had sexual relations with another male and was no longer a virgin, and because of this, she broke the society’s honor code created by Márquez. In this society, a female can diminish her family’s honor by having a sexual relationship before she is married, which is what Angela is believed to have done. This situation exemplifies how Angela breaks the society’s honor code, but later when she is living in exile as her punishment, her acceptance of her exile contributes to her new interpretation and belief in the honor code as requirement to be followed. After Angela is returned to her mother by Bayardo, she is exiled and required to pay for her sins. When the narrator talks with Angela years after the event, “she was so mature and witty that it was difficult to believe that she was the same person… She had nothing in common with the person who’d been obliged to marry without love at the age of twenty” (89). The narrator uses an admiring tone to convey the appreciation he has for Angela’s ability to move on with her life as seen by describing her as “mature” and “witty.” The admiring tone the narrator uses when describing Angela contrasts with her personality before she was placed in exile. The tone emphasises her evolving interpretation of the society’s honor code because it demonstrates the changes she goes through as a character as a result of her actions. The changes Angela makes in order to evolve and eventually comply with the honor code convey her new personal definition of the honor code as obligatory and characterizes her as a rule follower. While she did not follow society’s expectations before, her new personality shows she does now. Through Angela’s evolving
In the novella, it is claimed that before Angela was married, she had sexual relations with another male and was no longer a virgin, and because of this, she broke the society’s honor code created by Márquez. In this society, a female can diminish her family’s honor by having a sexual relationship before she is married, which is what Angela is believed to have done. This situation exemplifies how Angela breaks the society’s honor code, but later when she is living in exile as her punishment, her acceptance of her exile contributes to her new interpretation and belief in the honor code as requirement to be followed. After Angela is returned to her mother by Bayardo, she is exiled and required to pay for her sins. When the narrator talks with Angela years after the event, “she was so mature and witty that it was difficult to believe that she was the same person… She had nothing in common with the person who’d been obliged to marry without love at the age of twenty” (89). The narrator uses an admiring tone to convey the appreciation he has for Angela’s ability to move on with her life as seen by describing her as “mature” and “witty.” The admiring tone the narrator uses when describing Angela contrasts with her personality before she was placed in exile. The tone emphasises her evolving interpretation of the society’s honor code because it demonstrates the changes she goes through as a character as a result of her actions. The changes Angela makes in order to evolve and eventually comply with the honor code convey her new personal definition of the honor code as obligatory and characterizes her as a rule follower. While she did not follow society’s expectations before, her new personality shows she does now. Through Angela’s evolving