Both Rafeala and Esperanza‘s great-grandmother where women who were trapped by their circumstances. Both women had married men that wanted to keep them at home. Their interaction with the world outside their tiny homes are through the windows of their homes. On page 79 we learn that Rafeala‘s husband leaves her one night during the week to play dominoes. He is afraid that if he were to leave her to travel about as she pleases that she would leave him. Instead she sits in her window listening to the world below her. Weekly she asks the kids in her neighborhood to buy her coconut or papaya juice. She leans out of her window and throws a crumpled dollar bill down to the children below. They bring her a juice and she brings it into her house on
