Blanca continues her affair and is pregnant. This anger is reflected on Clara and hits her. Esteban was a conservative and did not approve the love affair.Įsteban makes Blanca leave Tres Marias and decides to kill Pedro. Blanca as a little girl falls in love with Pedro Tercero who is the son of a peasant foreman in Tres Marias and he was a revolutionary. Clara gives birth to Blanca and later to twins Jaime and Nicolas. His sister Ferula also moves in and Clara and Ferula become close.Įsteban is jealous of Clara and Ferula’s friendship and sends her away. They move to house in the corner built by Esteban. Esteban’s mother is about to die and he pays a visit to her and he marries Clara. They become good friends as well and he gives money to her to move to the city. He also had relationships with prostitutes as well and one of them was Transito Soto. However he begins exploiting the workers in land and even rapes some of them. Esteban is devastated but lady luck smiles on him in the form of fortune from his family property.Īnalysis of ‘The House of Spirits’ by Isabel Allende

When her prediction of the accident comes true through Rosa she stops talking about her clairvoyant experiences. The poison was meant for her father who was a senator.

Her sister, Rosa, was poisoned accidentally. She predicts that an accident was going to happen and it does happen in the form of the death of her sister. Clara was clairvoyant she could predict events but could not stop it if it was dangerous. She is the young girl at the del Valle house and she had a sister Rosa who was very beautiful and engaged to Esteban Trubea. Clara del Valle began to keep a journal as young girl when a priest accused her of being possessed. The story begins when Esteban and his granddaughter Alba go through the journals of Clara del Valle and they put it together to create the story of the family. Summary – Analysis of ‘The House of Spirits’ by Isabel Allende She started to write a letter to him and that became the initial manuscript of The House of Spirit. The House of Spirits was conceived when Allende received the news that her grandfather, who was hundred years old, was dying.

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