| The status of the woman in the culture of the | | | | predictable and planned before her birth. |
| Latin America was traditionally quite low. In | | | | According to the customs of the family she |
| contrast to the American culture, where the | | | | could never fall in love with the man and |
| ideas of feminism are quite widespread, in | | | | merry. Her main and only predestination was |
| the countries of Latin America the image of | | | | to care and look after her mother in her old |
| women is quite inveterate in the minds of | | | | age. Tita`s mother, Elena was very resentful |
| people. This attitude refers to the ideas of | | | | because of the loss of her husband. And |
| "Maryism", which means that the women have to | | | | because of her spite, Elena refused Tita to |
| follow the Catholic ideal of the Virgin | | | | merry with her beloved man, Pedro and offered |
| Maria. This idea also is connected with the | | | | him to merry with her another daughter, |
| ideology of machismo, which supports the | | | | Rosaura. Tita was upset and angry. |
| determinant role of the men in the society | | | | |
| and the family. These categorical theories | | | | These cruel and strange traditions, which are |
| prevent the movement of women into Latin | | | | widespread in the countries of Latin America, |
| America. All these ideas were clearly | | | | are expressed in the novella on the example |
| expressed in the Latin America literature. | | | | of Tita, the woman, which during all her life |
| The cruel customs and idea subjugate Tita, | | | | tried to struggle with these traditions for |
| the main personage of the novella "Like Water | | | | the sake of her own feelings and desires. |
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