In the book Like Water for Chocolate, women have
the most control on the ranch. Men like Pedro play a big part, but women play a bigger part, because the book is based mostly on how certain events affect their emotions. Even the issue between Tita and Pedro is described from the women's point of view. Another good example is, after Mama Elena's death, "...her presence was enough to inspire terror."(Esquival, 159). This goes to show how much impact the women have on the ranch, including the cooking and cleaning, without which the men could not survive.
Though women take the lead in running…
