tita's struggle for love
...that she would never amount to her mother’s standards, which helps to generate several different conflicts and to develop a story. Both of the emotional complications of Pedro and Mama Elena had huge impacts on Tita’s cooking. For example, while Tita is forced to prepare her sister’s wedding dinner, she longs for a husband she can’t have. “Her emotions were literally ‘like water for chocolate’- she was on the verge of boiling over” (Esquivel). The jealousy she experiences while preparing the cake is so strong, it becomes an ingredient, and everyone who eats it feels “flooded with a great wave of longing…but the weeping was just the first symptom of a strange intoxication—an acute attack of pain and frustration—that scared the guests and scattered them across th...