.. 'The only thing I prayed to God was to give me the courage to kill myself,' Angela Vicario told me. 'But he didn't give it to me (Marquez 41-42).

Again, as with the men in the story, women place honor as more important that life. Pura Vicario does all that she can to preserve her daughter's honor, just as her sons will do all they can to restore it. Since she did not gather the strength to restore her family's honor through committing suicide, Angela sought out other ways to hide her lost honor. Friends "taught her old wives' tricks to feign her lost possession, so that on her first morning as a newlywed she could display open under the sun in the courtyard of her house the linen sheet with the stain of honor" (Marquez 42). Using the words "possession" and "lost" is terms of Angela's virginity implies...
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