What a strange family.. When we first meet the Trueba's all we know is that Esteban's father managed to ruin a prosperous and valuable hacienda called the Tres Marias. Then Esteban's mother is dying a slow strange death by arthritis. Culminating in leg worms? I saw right off the bat that Esteban was a little different. With some of the thought processes we see in the mines and the way that he becomes uncontrollably furious about Rosa's untimely death. His stay at his mothers house only makes him sink deeper into a terrible disposition from which I am unsure if he ever will emerge. And he seems to drown all his positive emotions in work and raping peasants. The last type of person you would expect him to marry would be a clairvoyant, delicate young girl like Clara.
But it happens.. so what do you get when you combine a raging lunatic with a laid back wonderwoman? You get Jaime and Nicholas Trueba. These twins are about as far apart from each other as is characteristically possible. And not only are they completely different from each other, but they are each absolutely nothing like the rest of the family. However, tangentially I don't think any of the Truebas act similar to each other. I believe Clara summed it up well enough when she said that most families have one mentally retarded person in them. But that the Trueba family spread out there insanity between all it's members so that there wasn't enough left over for someone else. But in the case of Nicholas and Jaime, I can hardly believe that they are brothers let alone twins. However Blanca appears pretty normal.. for now.. all she wants is to live and love her soul mate Pedro Tercero Garcia.
It slightly annoys me how all of the characters in the family are just sort of irrational in their own way. And instead of just adjusting to it as the story moved on it just became more obvious and annoying to me. What is wrong with this family?
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