Brief Summary: Through The Eyes Of Esteban

From the first time Esteban had conversed with the beautiful and mystical Clara de Valle, to his last breath on Earth, her presence in his life was irreplaceable. Clara, who enraptured him more than her sister Rosa; Clara, who set her own boundaries in the house; Clara, who even in death comforts him until his last moments. Ever since childhood, Clara is aware of her powers in clairvoyance, which till the day she died, never left her. Her physic powers often leads her to disconnect from the world, forgetting names, disregarding mundane tasks, and ignoring her husband. He often wishes that Clara would escape from her world of apparitions and love him the way he thinks he deserves to be loved, revealing that “…his habits of rape and whoring very deeply ingrained, but even if he had to turn himself inside out like a glove, he was prepared to do …show more content…
Regardless of whether he succeeds in his seductions, Clara was able to get Esteban to care for someone more than he cares for himself. Furthermore, Clara’s refusal of Esteban starts with residing in separate bedrooms, to ceasing to engage sexually, and eventually turned to Clara using her maiden name and separating from Esteban. Despite Esteban's effort to control his anger issues, he hits his wife before he becomes aware of what he was doing, profusely apologizing afterwards. He soon realizes that “something in his life had been destroyed forever” (Allende 224). Clara’s strength in showing her husband he was wrong leads Esteban to devote his all to politics (where he stayed for the rest of his life), to release his mind of some loneliness and fury from Clara’s dismissal of him. As time passes, Clara seems to release her anger with Esteban and engages him in the way of smiles and head