How Does Jane Mature In Like Water For Chocolate

In the novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Tita struggles to find emotional stability throughout her life, leading to a problematic relationship with egotistical Pedro. Whereas in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane grows into a self-sustaining woman, allowing her and Rochester to help each other through their trauma of family neglect. Therefore, while Tita seems to be emotionally unstable for a passionate relationship with Pedro, Jane proves that she is now mentally mature to marry Rochester despite his faults.

In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita’s incapability to express and evaluate her feelings in a healthy way shows her need for an unselfish person, unlike Pedro who is inconsiderate of others’ feelings. Tita finally

Tita “breaking chunks of tortilla,” displays her lack of calmness in the argument to get her point across to Rosaura, implying that Tita is unable to express her words in a reasonable manner. As a result of her anger, the chickens “disappeared from the face of the earth,” representing Tita’s suppressed emotions in wishing that Rosaura should disappear, further showing Tita’s unhealthy mindset. During Tita and John’s wedding, Pedro gets jealous and dances with Tita while John is watching: “As they danced, John followed them with his eyes, with a look full of affection and just a hint of resignation. Tenderly Pedro touched his

Jane requests to return to the Reed house, after learning about her cousin’s suicide and her aunt, Mrs. Reed’s, illness; however Rochester questions, “And what good can you do her… you say she cast you off,” Jane replies, “Yes, sir, but that is long ago; and when her circumstances were very different: I could not be easy to neglect her wishes now” (Brontë 227). Jane looks beyond that Mrs. Reed “cast[ed] her off,” implying that she has grown to let go of grudges and developed a mature mentality. The irony of Jane’s inability to “neglect her wishes,” infers how the injustice treatment of Mrs. Reed unaffectedly brings Jane to look past the situation by visiting the Reeds in a time of sorrow. In addition, Rochester attempts to convince his wedded Jane to stay with him, after learning about his mad wife; Rochester claims that his father had “sent [him] out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for” him but only so his brother and father to get “thirty thousand pounds,” Rochester further admits to Jane that “you know now that I had but a hideous demon. I was wrong to attempt to deceive you…I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences. This was cowardly” (Brontë 320). Rochester’s childhood neglection of his brother and father to trade him for money instills in him