Thoughts on Doris Sommer

I found the fact that she points out that Sab produces his own story on his own very interesting because it emphasizes the importance of the character and the type of man that Sab is. Sommers also makes note of Sab's description, which we also talked about in class. Not only is Sab not connected to a race, but the story itself takes on a feel of its own. She also notes that Sab remains without identity in another way, due to the absence of his father, making him a more mysterious and unidentified character. On page 121 Sommers makes an good point in that Sab is also some what seen by both genders as a hero. He is a passionate man and thus seen as a hero to women yet manly at the same time, where as Enrique somewhat disappoints the reader in that he does not have that same passion and love for Carlota.
Sommers talks about how feminists argue that the author is writing agaisnt the male tradition, which I found different and interesting, yet valid. Also, how she points out that the love between the two is an impossible love, but only impossible because slavery makes it impossible, which i found interesting because I had not thought of that before.