All in all, Philip Howard of the London Times’s assessment of Isabel Allende’s, The House of The Spirits, that, “Despite the fact that Esteban rapes, pillages, kills, and conspires, he never entirely loses the reader’s sympathy,” is true because Esteban Trueba was introduced as an honorable character and makes an admirable first impression with the reader, he has suffered constantly throughout his life which reinforce sympathy despite his wrongdoings, and as Esteban enters old age, his persona changes as he attempts to reform his relationships into loving ones. Trueba’s first impression with the reader was noble, he was a young man in love, working hard in his quest to become rich and marry his dream girl. Trueba also suffers perpetually over
