5/30/2023 0 Comments In the country mia alvar analysis![]() ![]() ![]() It makes sense for him to be in the dark for a long time (at least 5.5 pages).Įdit: I’m not sure what to think about the fact that Loretta may have used Steve’s gift to kill his father. ![]() I also found it pretty easy to guess that Loretta might have deliberately used too many patches on her husband, but that’s probably not a problem for the story, which is really about Steve’s changing understanding of his family. If she’s a villain, she’s a villain only in a secret and ambiguous fashion. That’s not quite right, though, since there’s no bida, or hero, for her to go up against. That parallel is a little obvious too, but I think it works.Īlvar implies (in her One Story interview) that the narrator’s mother turns out to be the kontrabida. ![]() The title already points to the significance of the Tagalog melodramas and their villains, and the narrator has already emphasized the meekness and passivity of the traditional female love interest, which corresponds so well to his mother’s ostensible meekness and passivity. I feel like that last line could have been struck out. “Through all the melodramas that my family and I had watched, in which the bida and the kontrabida crossed their swords over a woman, I never guessed that she might be the one to watch.” I enjoyed this a lot, but the last line rubbed me the wrong way. Appeared in One Story on June 12, 2012 (volume 10 number 17, issue number 165) buy the issue or subscribe ![]()
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