In our interactive oral we discussed the topic of familismo and machismo in Latin American culture which were prevalent in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. During the discussion, my understanding of the characteristics and obligations of familismo and machismo significantly enhanced. In Latin American society familismo is a prominent practice where an individual’s family would come before that individual’s needs or wants. In the novel we can see this idea coming to play with the character Angela Vicario, where she was pressured to marry a man she had little knowledge of and detested for the sake of her family, before acquiring this knowledge I had little understanding of the reasons why Garcia-Marquez felt that it was
