House of Spirit
... However, things are different in The House of the Spirits. ... The major characters in The House of the Spirits come from two opposing classes: the landed aristocracy and the peasants. ... Several different attitudes are presented toward this inequality in The House of the Spirits. ... Simply by making class struggle a major theme of the novel, The House of the Spirits supports the view of the peasants: the conservatives would not see class struggle as a problem, let alone a topic around which to organize a novel. ... Albas views also prevail in the retrospective commentary of Esteban Trueba who slowly comes to accept his granddaughters position The unnamed country in The House of the Spirits, like Allendes native Chile, is divided between modern city and largely undeveloped countryside, and also between an aristocratic and a peasant class, with little in between. ... While several of the characters in The House of the Spirits subscribe to these traditional views, the novel works to break down any neat divisions between civilization and barbarity.