After reading about Rosario Castellanos we can recognize she was and continues to be one of the most influential writers of her time. Unquestionably, her voice as a poet, essayist, novelist and in general as a woman, served to express her disagreement with the condition of women at a universal and individual level. In several ways, she was able to carefully highlight one of the main issues in every society and that’s gender inequality. Not only that, but her peculiarity when it came to writing was another thing that distinguished her from all the others, and this is based on her constant use of irony and humor in most of her literary work. However, her approach to using humor and irony never detracted from her main purpose as a female writer, which revolved around the criticism of the political and patriarchal oppression. This leads me to one of her writings titled “Cooking Lesson”, a …show more content…
She understands that she is an educated woman who, had it not been for the restrictions of her marriage, would’ve been able to develop as a professional and as the unique human being she is. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the metamorphosis of the meat and the woman herself, alludes that she might rebel against society and her husband because that’s the only way she could escape from her current situation and what’s holding her back from conquering anything she desires as a woman. Granted that, I believe that despite the years it has been since Castellanos wrote “Cooking Lesson”, the story still has elements that pertain to women all over the world because even though women are able to enjoy a little more freedom, sometimes society still considers us to be inferior than men. As a result, we must prove them wrong and never settle for less because we really do have so much potential