When Women Love Men

I have two quotes. The first quote is on a broader scale about a recurring theme with postcolonial texts.

     "It happened when you died, Ambrosio, and left each of with half of your inheritance, that all this confusion began, this scandal spinning around all over like an iron hoop, smashing your good name against the walls of the town, this slapped and stunned confusion that you swung around for the sake of pleasure, pushing us both downhill at the same time."

This quote is basically a demonstration of the power money has on people. If you have the money, you have the power to alter people to your liken because with money comes power and influence. The problem with money and power in postcolonial societies seems to be a recurring them that appears in many of the texts we have read so far and it should be no surprise that it is found here. In postcolonial type societies depicted by many of the previous authors, money brings too much power and when it suddenly vanishes, or appears, it creates a great disturbance in that so called society. But, because people in postcolonial type societies as depicted by previous authors show that their is huge importance to power and class, it creates a raging war within the likes of which could not be stopped without a restructuring of the entire society which in itself is unacceptable.

"...hidden in my brothel, where no one will know that they have let themselves be made, that they have been putty in my hands, so that then they can, pompous like roosters, delight the little white girls, those blobs of custard that rich girls probably look like in bed, because it is not proper for a good girl to thrust her pelvis, because good girls have vaginas of polished silver and bodies of carved alabaster..."

The key phrase, it is not proper. This is the problem that is recurring throughout this text that seems to be the main idea. This problem reveals issues not with just women being proper, but with men being proper as well and for a postcolonial text, it is a big deal because it challenge a common type of society depicted by these kinds of texts that looks down on taboo acts...