![]() ![]() Eliza, as she stows away in a dark hole at the bottom of a ship, awakens to the challenge of first redefining herself in a man's world of adventure and aggression before she refines herself and returns to a new definition of what it is to be an unfettered and independent female.Īllende says that Daughter of Fortune did not turn out as she had planned and that during the process of composition, she often got angry with some of her characters who would not do what she wanted them to do. That journey also represents a spiritual quest. In Daughter of Fortune, Eliza takes a physical journey through time and space as she travels from Chile to Gold-Rush-era California. Allende also believes that the novel reflects her own struggle to define the role of feminism in her life. ![]() Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge. Isabel Allende says of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life. ![]()
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