Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits explores the changes in culture and tradition from one generation to another, through the eyes the Trueba family, which spans three generations. This family saga is a story about the political changes of the Chilean Revolution and women’s struggle for power through, as Patricia Hart states, ‘magical feminism’ (Hart 30). Hart defines magical feminism “as magical realism employed in a femino-centric work” (Hart 30). Allende constitutes a world full of spirits and human inhabitants, like Esteban Trueba, a cantankerous patriarch who is overcome with a lust for land and his wife who he can never seem to fully please, Clara.
