Eliza Sommers, the central heroine in Daughter of Fortune, is the maternal grandmother of Aurora del Valle, the central figure of Portrait in Sepia. The novels were not written in the sequence of their narrative action. In Daughter of Fortune, Allende again creates an engaging female protagonist, Eliza Sommers, who struggles with both emotional attachments and social restrictions in a journey of self-discovery and self-realization.Īllende’s Daughter of Fortune is positioned as the first part of a trilogy of novels that includes Portrait in Sepia and The House of the Spirits as the second and third books, respectively. In some ways, this story represents a return to the motifs and themes of the author’s earlier works, including her first novel, The House of the Spirits(1982). Like all other novels by Isabel Allende (1942– ), Daughter of Fortune was first written and published in Spanish. Analysis of Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune
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