In some of my earlier blogs, I said that Estabon Trueba never felt any remorse for the things that he did. After looking at chapter six I have to retract that statement and insert this one: He begins to feel regret for his past outburst, but this guilt doesn’t seem to stop him from making even more bad decisions and having more fits of uncontrollable anger.
Chapter seven is called Revenge. The most obvious revenge that takes place in this chapter is Trueba trying to catch Pedro Segundo Tercero. Ironically, Trueba is ticked off that Tercero and Blanca have been messing around. Clara exposes this irony by telling Trueba that the only difference between what Pedro Tercero and Blanca are doing and what he himself did was that Pedro Tercero and Blanca love each other. Trueba responds to this by flying into one of his fits of anger and beating his wife. He is almost immediately sorry for his actions, but Clara never talks to him again.
Trueba still tries to kill Tercero even though his daughter loves him. This is the most outright form of revenge in this chapter, but this is also the chapter where we start to see revenge coming upon Trueba. He is extremely distraught that Clara won’t talk to him and he suffers quite a bit. Also, when Trueba finally catches Tercero, with the help of Estabon Garcia, he finds that the revenge that he wanted so badly was not nearly as simple or satisfying as he thought it would be. Another source of revenge in this chapter is Garcia. He holds a huge grudge against Trueba which is intensified when Trueba calls him a traitor and refuses to give him the reward for finding Tercero. Garcia’s character has been filled with foreshadowing ever since Trueba first raped Pancha. Because of the cyclical nature of the book, it seems pretty evident that Trueba is going to pay for the violence and evil that he showed to the peasants.
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