Each individual, each person, each woman, etc.. has their own way of dealing with love situations. Or so we want to think. We can surely generalize what can or could happen in a given situation. For Tere, in “Loving Pedro Infante” by Denise Chávez, being in love was everything in her life. She had her own ideals and dreams for her life. Her dream of a happy life was to have ‘her’ man, her kids, and her jacalito. Quite simple dream but at how far she could just settle to be close enough to her happy life. Her thoughts with her comadre Irma, were of an independent mujer Mejicana. But then when she was with her lover Lucio, she pretty much throw out her ideals and morals out the window. ‘Una Mujer Mejicana’ usually to most is the exotic strong woman who drinks tequila and well has a curvaceous body. Tere sure did not only considered her self one, but was one to Lucio and other men. Tere brought up other issues of life she had to deal with in her town. In the end she matured enough to understand most of what Irma and her talked about. And to let her lover live his life instead of trying to force herself in his.
-RA
