The telenovelas play a significant role in Cleofilas’ life, as well of most of the women around her. These soap operas influence women’s overall appearance. The way the women dress and behave stems from what they see on these tv shows. Cleofilas copies the way the women comb their hair and do their makeup, and the narrator alters the dress she’s wearing to Cleofila’s wedding based on a dress that she saw on one of the soap operas. The shows also influence the way that Cleofilas viewed how love should be. she wanted her love life to match the one she saw on tv, where there is unconditional love between a man and a women, and against all odds they find themselves together and deeply in love with each other. Cleofilas expected the passion that she saw in the shows to be in her marriage. Instead, she was married to someone who didn’t have much care for romance and affection, and who treated his family as a burden. She also thought that she would handle some situations differently from the way that they were handled in the shows. For example, when she would watch a woman being slapped by another man, Cleofilas told herself that that could not be her, and she would fight back or run away if the situation ever presented itself to her.  When it did, however, she was so shocked that it actually happened to her, that she just sat there and didn’t respond. All she could do was comfort the man felt guilty for slapping her. I think that she was not only shocked by it actually happening to her, but her lack of response as well. She had envisioned herself doing one thing, but saw herself doing nothing at all. That must’ve been a hard personal struggle, because she could have questioned her strength. One sure thing is she could take these situations on the tevelnovelas and accept the fact that the good and the bad of the shows cold actually happen to her, and there is not guarantee that would be a happy ending to her life the way there is in the shows.

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