Eliza Sommers Character Analysis

“Decisions are hardest to make, especially when it’s a choice between where you should be, and where you want to be”. (khandox097ltumblr). In the eventfully thrilling work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune by the exceptionally cultured author, Isabel Allende, emphasizes the importance of decision making, as Eliza Sommers, the protagonist, makes a series of decision that will alter the course of her life and determine the following pages of the account. Eliza decides to go follow Joaquin to California after discovering that she is pregnant without informing her adoptive family and makes this great decision that will heavily impact her. Faced with an ultimatum, Eliza Sommers is blinded but what she perceives to be passionate love, yet her love

Eliza’s ultimate decision was deciding to go on the journey to California, in search of her lover, Joaquin Andieta, yet Eliza has made minor choices that lead her to this situation. Her significant decision was choosing to have an affair with Joaquin and deciding to offer herself and purity to this unworthy clerk of a lower rank, ignorant of the consequences her affair would bring. Despite Mama Fresia’s and Rose’s effort on searching for worthy suitor to wed, Eliza has decided that she was in love with Joaquin. When entering a paradox where Eliza might have considered the consequences she would have to face if she executed her affair, the reader would be fully aware of that Eliza is blinded by love, and her judgment is clouded by her naivety. Eliza Sommers soon faced the dreadful consequences to the senseless decisions she has made when she learns that she is in fact pregnant, moments after Joaquin, the father of the fetus, is struck by the gold fever, thus escapes Chile to head to California in attempt to become rich. He made no promise of returning, yet had the intention of becoming rich, saving his mother from her misery, and being finally worthy of asking Eliza’s hand in marriage. Thus in this situation, Eliza is faced with an ultimatum, weather to reunite with her lover, Joaquin, or to handle with the pregnancy behind the shadows. Though Mama Fresia has attempted to get rid of the fetus with a remedy, it was a failed attempt. The colossal decision of journeying to California in pursuit of Joaquin had an equally tremendous outcome. It caused Eliza to become severely ill leading to a miscarriage. However, the consequences of Eliza’s decisions weren’t entirely pessimistic, since the journey made Eliza achieve what she couldn’t have back in the British