Girl Power

1
Girl Power

• Analysis of the Trueba women in
• The House of the Spirits

2
Miscellaneous Women

• Pancha Resigned to her fate
• Nivea del Valle Upper-class suffragette
• Transito Soto Makes things happen for herself

3
Clara

• She is clairvoyant and telekinetic.
• She holds the family together with her love.
• She fights for what she wants in small, subtle
  ways.
• She adds rooms to the big house on the corner.

4
Blanca Trueba

• The most passive of the Trueba women.
• She is defined by her relationship with Pedro
  Tercero.
• She is very practical.
• She will not leave the social standing of her
  fathers name.

5
Alba Satigny

• Described mostly through her effect on her family
  and friends.
• She joins the socialist revolution because of her
  boyfriend, not for belief in the cause.
• She is captured and tortured for information
  about him.
• She puts together the novel.

6
Conclusion

• The Trueba women are strong.
• They do not bow down to mistreatment by men.
• Their reactions to inequality are subtle.
• Responding to violence and aggression with
  gentility and passivity.
• They are far more effective in creating lasting
  change.