Furthermore, women have an impacting role on machismo regarding sexuality in the Latin America. Maria Cervantes is an “elegant and tender” whore that frequently has sexual relations with men while living in a “house with open door, with several rooms to rent” (Marquez 64). Marquez uses imagery here to describe how her house is spacious for all the men in the town to stay, promoting their sexual tendencies while “doing away with their generation’s virginity”. Although the narrator depicts her as a respectable and beautiful women, this juxtaposes the culturally accepted value that the women should not have sexual relations before marriage, while Maria embraces sexuality and promotes it within the men in their society, thus showing machismo in Latin American societies through sexuality in women. Additionally, Marquez uses symbolism in Maris’s name to further exemplify her role pertaining to sexuality in the story. Maria signifies the Virgin Mary, Alejandrina is in reference to Alexandria, the heart of knowledge and learning in Egypt, and Cervantes is a very pronoun Spanish writer.
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These symbolic references portray her as a mentor figure to the men, while she is praised for her sexual experiences, preparing them to fulfil their machismo roles in society, showing the readers male dominance in Latin American society through influence by
These symbolic references portray her as a mentor figure to the men, while she is praised for her sexual experiences, preparing them to fulfil their machismo roles in society, showing the readers male dominance in Latin American society through influence by