"'They're perfect' she was frequently heard to say. 'Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer."
This quote from the novel The Chronicles of a Death Foretold further illustrates the reoccurring theme of the class relating to the colonizer/colonized and the core/periphery. In this excerpt and throughout the novel mothers serve as the "colonizer" as they continue to impose the reserved Columbian traditions on their daughters. This quote illustrates the difference in gender roles and how daughters are brought up to be wives and not not women. These differences in gender upbringings further bounds the daughters to the traditions of culture as the woman's worth is measured according to her ability to become a desired wife. This further illustrates the purpose of marriage in the traditional Columbian culture
as it is a courtship, or an agreement that is not based on love.
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