The House of the Spirits notes

Magical realism, as ‘a mode suited to exploring- and transgressing- boundaries’ , is useful for feminist objectives. The genre challenges dominant ways of seeing the world and can therefore be used to contest androcentric worldviews. In The House of the Spirits (1985), for example, the use of the supernatural empowers the women of the Trueba household. In Nights at the Circus (1984) the magically realist body of Fevvers is a symbolic representation of the New Woman. In both texts, however, t...

AP Literature and composition book dialectical journals. Includes 15 quotes with analysis and brief summary of context that discusses themes, major happenings and events, and runs through the plot line. Very helpful for studying for the exam and FRQ's as this is one of the recommended books to read and draw material from.