It is fascinating to examine how each of the four sisters
responds to the terror of the Trujillo regime. Minerva, out of all of them, is the first
to be involved in the rebel movement, thanks to her friendship with Virgilio Morales.
Part of her character is her headstrong defiance of Trujillo's regime, and the way that
she is able to face Trujillo without yielding. Note how she refuses to give in to
Trujillo's sexual advances and then how she challenges Trujillo and gambles for the
right to study law. Clearly, as it says in the text, she sets herself in opposition to
Trujillo:
I
look down at the lopsided scales as he puts his dice back. For a moment, I imagine them
evenly balanced, his will on one side, mine of the
other.
As her mother has
already noted, Minerva is determined to "fight everyone's fight," even though this
endangers the situation and lives of her family and those nearest and dearest to her.
Unfortunately, although she did not desire it, part of being a rebel is the way that
your actions endanger those around you, and thus Minerva does cause harm to others
through her rebel associations.
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