Like Water For Chocolate Symbolism

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People have different points of view on everything and everyone often because depending on who we are and what we want, we blind our eyes to everything and allow them only to see when something is convenient to us. Laura Esquivel in Like Water for Chocolate , perfectly portrays through symbols how during different occasions, characters see objects, people and feelings in different ways. In a Mexican home, a young lady, Tita is forbidden to marry the love of her life, Pedro by Mama Elena. However, Mama Elena suggests Pedro marries Rosaura, Tita’s sister, and Pedro impulsively agrees so he can be near Tita. However, throughout the book, through Tita’s cooking, characters express their feelings towards people and things that most of the time, …show more content…
Although Rosaura knew how much love there was between Pedro and Tita, instead of emphatically rejecting to marry Pedro, she decides she will marry him. Not only does Tita feel betrayed by her sister but by the love of her life too. Tita’s sorrow grows even more when she sees the white sheet Rosaura and Pedro will use at their honeymoon. This white sheet “was designed to reveal only the bride’s essential parts while allowing marital intimacy” (February 32). The color white is almost always a symbolism of purity and cleanness. However, when Titas sees this white sheet, she seems to see it as a bad thing and was able to look at it “long enough to cause a sort of blindness” (February 33). Instead of seeing the same significance in the sheet as everyone and seeing the purity of it, she sees the bad side of it, the side that negatively affects her. She only sees how the possibility of her being with Pedro as his wife fades and she can not do anything about it since Mama Elena has decided without hesitation the future of both her daughters and Pedro although she probably was aware would set a rivalry between both her daughters. Although sometimes it is obvious something is pure, if that purity affects us in a negative way, we reject to see the positivity of it and only allow our eyes to see the bad side of …show more content…
When Tita becomes the head cook of the house, Pedro gives her flowers with two intentions. One, to congratulate her for her spot in the kitchen and two, to show her his love. When Tita “[clasps] the roses to her chest so tightly that when she [gets] to the kitchen, the roses, which had been mostly pink had turned quite red from the blood that was flowing from [her] hands and breasts” Esquivel portrayed that the love between Pedro and Tita is very harmful (March 48). What the two young people feel for each other harms both of them because although they know at this point their love is impossible, they keep giving each other false faith. Tita, however, is harmed the most by this impossible love because if she were to fight for her love, she would need to chose between the person she loves and her family. Also, she has been forbidden to marry which means her one and last opportunity to marry has disappeared. “She couldn’t just throw them in the trash; in the first place, she’d never been given flowers before, and second, they were from Pedro.” Although Tita knows that love for Pedro is hurting her, she denies to throw it away like she rejects to get rid of the roses because just like the the
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