The Widower Roman Analysis

The two thought provoking short stories that this response essay will be tackling are “The Eagle” and “The Widower Roman” by Rosario Castellanos. From the trivial amount of work that I have read by Rosario I have noticed her impeccable ability of tackling moral, and ethical dilemmas and presenting them in a captivating and somewhat humorous manner. This ability is capable of making the reader question the ethicality behind the protagonists’ motives in an unconventional manner. However, it seems to me that there is a common underlining theme throughout both these short chronicles, which is “Strong taking advantage of the weak/weaker”. The Theme is almost literally expressed in the first story “The Eagle”; Hector takes advantage of the naïve “leaders” of Tenejapa, which ultimately originates from his initial wrongdoing, which is marrying Emelina tavor. He starts off with an elaborate scheme of marry Emelina with the sole aim of acquiring her entire hard-earned wealth. The story then escalates with him …show more content…
Don Carlos was initially introduced to the readers as a deeply emotional and helpless man withering in his solitude. However we get a glimpse of change in his attitude after helping the young injured boy. I found the story of the young boy quite unnecessary initially whilst reading it. However, after reading the story in its entirety, I realized that it had large amount of significance especially with the toughest in the group praying on the weakest. Don Carlos’ wit was represented in many aspects throughout the story, however as a reader I didn’t sense a hit of his vengeance. Which I believe the author did intentialy to skew the readers’ predictions and therefore amount to a greater surprise. He was able to arrange a long and tactful plan to marry Romelia for the sole reason of getting her locket and matching the handwriting to the latters that his late wife Estelle