Clotilde s Past Authorial Father
... She was in El Paso Woman’s Hall of Fame in 1986 and in 1990 named an Author of the Pass by the El Paso Herald Post. ... Her husband Bob said in his memorial service eulogy, “Estela’s insatiable thirst for knowledge and her relentless drive to change the inequitable status of womanhood shows in her books for she writes of women who have strength in this social world. ... She was there to seek her grandmother’s past when she left Mexico and never returned. The grandmother’s name is Clotilde and the granddaughter’s name is Teresa. Clotilde is infamous, so people speak of her travels adventures, marriages, and her art ventures. But there is also her past with her authorial father that made her leave Mexico forever. ... Clotilde’s father was almost alike Teresa’s father that they both are very archaic. ... ” Clotilde was a commodity for her father, an investment. Her father tried to marry her to a rich man of property, a neighbor man of her father’s age, named Don Ignacio. ... He was the inspiration for Clotilde in her art study, and eventually moved to Paris and lived there. ... Again, all this angered my father. ... My father would watch, and after the race I would run to him, throw back my head, and look him in the eye, hoping for some word of praise. ... I did all things well, but I never heard a word of praise from my father. She tried to show off her talent but her father still refuses to let her go to Paris to study art. As Clotilde and Teresa walked to the gardens, she continued her story, when her brother was sent to go to Paris to study art, which she knew that he wasn’t studying, he only wanted to go there and have fun, when she and her asked her father to send her to live with her brother and her uncle, her father and her family got enraged. This was when her father told her about the plan of marrying her to Don Ignacio, and this was a great dream of his life, to emerge two rich families.