Differences

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i’m doing now”. After i was told about this i thought about it and till this day i don’t agree with that tradition. Woman have the same right as men therefore they should be able to go out and work just like men do. It seems like being a female back then was like you were in prison and couldn’t leave the house.

As i was reading The lost steps by Alejo carpentier the word “Machismo” was literally tattooed on his forehead, it’s the story of a man departing what he holds to be an unworthy and empty existence in the City where he works as a composer. The life by day constrained to society and by night, a life encompassed by excessive vices such as his sexual wantings and heavy drinking. The story goes on a journey, deep into a glorious forest, untouched by the civilization that he associates himself with. This individual must go into the jungle not only for escape but for his own type of business, but his search for self worth and self meaning. As these events occurred the protagonist had a successful wife named Ruth who was a very famous and talented actress, even when having a successful partner in which she knew what she wanted and had a bright future his sexual part couldn’t resist as he had a mistress. The wife knew about her as she knew about the wife. This individual was living a nightmare, he was sad, lonely and didn’t know what he wanted. As he escaped the city to travel the forest with his mistress he then found himself “in love” with another mistress, eventually after returning home not only to get divorced from his wife, but also losing both mistresses leaving him on square one on his own. Throughout the stories of him in the city and in the forest he always had the “machismo” mentality, even when he was wrong and it was his fault he would blame everyone else. When the wife found out about the mistress he told her it was her fault because she had no time for him, when something he didn’t agree with the first mistress, he would blame her. Also the same thing with the individuals he ended up finding at the forest. This man was selfish, didn’t realize his mistakes and always thought he was right, i’m glad his wife left him and his mistress left with another man. A man deserves what he deserves for being an “asshole”.

After finishing this book and knowing the background of machismo through my family, i came to a conclusion that i relate a lot to the wife Ruth. I was the type of individual that in high school I really didn’t want a relationship plus i had my mom behind my ear saying “ study and get your career then get yourself a partner”. As i graduated i really liked this girl in math class and with the help of her friends we got to know each other and eventually got together. On our 3rd year into the relationship things started to get rocky and as i did my investigation and behaviors started to change i found out about the other side of that individual. Eventually the truth came out and i was wasting my time, my partner then had been talking to other guys with her friends, let’s just put it that way. I was working my tail off, going to school full time and working as well so this person i gave all my trust to and love would come back with a curveball and hit me right on the face. Like my mom tells me “you never know

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