Like Water For Chocolate Mama Elena Character Traits

In the novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, she created a cast of characters containing strong females that give dedication and great honor throughout their lives. Though each character has a different type of strength, it proves how strong a female can be inside without even knowing it. Tita shows her strength by breaking family traditions and affecting others with her actions. Nacha who is partially deaf can read what other people say and she raises a child who isn't hers. Mama Elena has a real strength by using her authority as head of the family and abusing said authority. Tita is the strongest of the female characters because she disobeyed her mother's rules, raised a child that isn't hers, and got revenge on Pedro for marrying her sister.

Tita is a very strong female character throughout the novel and proves it in many ways. Mama Elena has family traditions and all of all her daughters, Tita

Mama Elena is known for abusing her authority by telling Pedro's father instead of marrying Tita he should marry Rosaura. For example, "But if you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura, who's just two years older than Tita"(13). She shows that as being the head of the house, she can do anything in her way. Her power is also showing that she can make somebody suffer. Another way she shows her strength is by beating Tita. For example, "The night of the wedding reception she had gotten a tremendous hiding from Mama Elena, like no beating before or since. She spent two weeks in bed recovering from her bruises" (41). Mama Elena has to have a certain type of strength by beating her daughter that bad. By Mama Elena feeling that Tita messed up Rosaura's wedding. She wants her strength to cause major sufferment on Tita. The difference between Mama Elena's strength and the other females is that she has cruel