Mother-Daughter Relationship in Laura Esquivel's Como Agua Para Chocolate‪.‬

By confronting the Terrible Mother in order to move beyond the entanglements of the mother/daughter relationship, and by claiming her as a metaphor for the sources of our own creative powers, women are creating new self-configurations in which the mother is no longer the necessary comfort but the seed of a new being, and in which we are no longer the protected child but the carriers of the new woman whose birth is our own. Karen Elias-Button: 205