al center of the novel despite his moral leadership. It is only when Nora dies that Gregory is forced to face the fears that have plagued him throughout his life--his fear of being alone (Allende 335). While it is a life-threatening moment, it is also life-affirming. He finds himself chanting: "I want to live, I want to live" (Allende 335).
Maria Roof argues Allende's novels depart from the predominant models of Latin American and other Third World narratives by positing new forms of affirmative female protagonists (401). She states that in resistance to the attraction of accepting socially circumscribed roles for women, Allende's works offer the significant symbol of the woman as writer (Roof 406). Although it is not clear, the narrator of The Infinite Plan certainly has a feminine flavor. And it is to a woman psychiatrist Gre
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