Esteban Trueba In Isabel Allende's The House Of The Spirits

Chapters seven and eight rough draft

In Isabel Allende’s “The House of the Spirits” the character Esteban Trueba, in chapters seven and eight, exhibits an irrational sense of anger and apparent madness. Esteban’s eccentric anger and behavior are used in part to show the greater meaning of the work of how people reap what they sought.

Esteban Trueba, throughout the novel, shows eccentrically angry behavior and is under the delusion that he is shrinking. In chapters seven and eight he continues these trends in multiple ways. In the beginning of chapter seven, Esteban shows his essentially angry behavior when he smashes a phone after learning that his daughter is pregnant. He also acts somewhat madly when he makes his daughter marry a man he knows little about in order to save his reputation. Esteban throughout much of the book has the continuing illusion that he is shrinking and becoming weaker. In chapter seven his delusion becomes great enough in his mind to warren traveling all the way to the United States to some see North American doctors at what must have been a great personal expense and effort to himself.

Esteban throughout the book throws multiple temper tantrums in which he smashes things and in one instance responds violently towards his wife and daughter. Esteban's abuse to his wife has significance to the story as a whole because it causes her to never speak to him again. Early on in the book Esteban rapes many of the young tenants on his Hacienda. This significantly affects the plot because one of the grandchildren who was born from a son of one of the rapes, Esteban garcia, would go on to cause a great amount of pain to the trueba