(source:H.O. Santos.The Best Philippine SHORT STORY.Web.7 July 2009.[http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/stories/servant.htm].)
I really felt what Rosa is going through, what her mistress was doing to her, I really felt PITY for her. While the mistress was beating her, I thought I was the one being beaten. Rosa is a very good person, a healthy, down to earth female specimen acutely conscious of her own physical attractions, and that’s why people reading this specially the women and her co-servants might cry as they read this story.
Rosa is sharply aware of the interest of the two men who circle her like fighting cocks ruffling their feathers at a hen. First, there is the girl's fantasy about the cochero, whom she conceives as different from other men, more gallant, gentler, and to whom she gives the name "Angel." Besides him, Sancho, her admirer, seems brutish and rude.
I REALLY FELT BAD for Rosa when her Angel, Pedro, met her again and act as if they never saw each other before. But on the contrary, Rosa was awakened from her “DAYDREAMS” between her, Pedro and Sancho. These daydreams really gave Rosa the courage and the guts to survive the whole day with her mistress and her never ending abusiveness and cruelness, however, that is completely wrong, you met this guy in just one night and you think that as if they’ll getting to be married tomorrow?
After all of what had happened, she came back to her mistress and takes good care of her in spite of its brutality. ROSA is really a VERY VERY good person; no intensifiers can highlight the word “GOOD”. She’s a model not just to her co-servants but also TO US. If your going to think deeply in your heart, Rosa is better than us, even though she’s is just a servant.
The story raises issues--about class and about gender--which it does not really explore or resolve. It ends on a quiet note, with apparent acceptance of the way things are.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Let us treat these people (servants) as people, they are also people like us with equal rights and responsibilities, yes, they are being payed for their hard works BUT are you buying his/her whole identity/body/personality? NO! So don’t act as if you own them! If you do any brutality to them, who’s the animal then?
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