The watch without owner, story by Mexican author José López Portillo
"Watch without owner" was a story written by the Mexican author, José López Portillo and Roja born in 1850 in Guadalajara, José López Portillo was also, journalist lawyer, professor, governor of Jalisco and secretary of Foreign Affairs, it was a writer who belongs who belongsto the current of realism.
Watch without owner was first published in the 1918 collection. (Brief narrative, 2014)
Throughout this essay, it will be observed how the machismo represented the language used by Judge Zendejas when addressing his wife in the story in the story? This will be answered by analyzing the machismo represented in different areas in which he addresses the wife and physical expression and in actions, which lead us to this idea of machismo used in history.
As a result of an investigation previously carried out, we can observe the different types of machismo presented in the story, through actions which show a sense of falocracy, in the acts of the character, the physical expression and the language he uses when addressing his wife.
Returning to a walfore, it is a story developed in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, the story is about the life of Judge Félix Zendejas, an honest judge, a grumpy man and superb, who lives with his afflicted wife. Thanks to the distractions of his daily life and his character, he ends in a situation contrary to his title of power as a judge and his beliefs. When making an involuntary robbery, believing that he was stopping the same crime, he ends up stealing a clock and publishing a notice saying that he has a lost watch, not knowing that he was the thief of that watch and had committed a crime.
It is worth mentioning the technical aspects of a owner, the protagonist is the judge Félix, the antagonist the wife, secondary character the drunk. The narrator is the third omniscient zero person. Historical time is at the beginning of the 20th century, management is chronological, plot time is a couple of days and perception is rapid. The social space is the upper class, the psychological is suspense and irony and the physicist is his house and the court. The predominant textual form is narrative.
The question will be answered below. In the story, we can analyze how the language used among the characters, surrounds us in an idea of machismo, and makes us more in the character of the judge, in his character and how his wife is mainly directed, the presence of this languagederogatory throughout the story. Machismo is a series of behaviors, attitudes and values, which is characterized by the exaltation of the male figure, through unfair behaviors that hold social power. Physical superiority, a stereotype of gender weakness, which create unfair relationships of power.
Within the story we can see it in different ways, in key phrases … "I know it and you don’t", "I do everything you want without the need to tell me, woman. I don’t need anyone to spur me up ". (López Portillo and Rojas.J. 2012 p. 56), they show, as mentioned in the theoretical framework, a type of linguistic machismFor him, Zendejas affirms that he does not need his wife’s help, since he is totally able to take care of himself, without anyone’s help, much less that of his wife, high and incorrigible. (‘Machismo: concept, types of machismo and origin’, 2019)
It shows a sense of superiority to knowledge, showing that he knows more, in a sense of arrogance, therefore his opinion is the only valid, not only verbally, but also in the actions he presents when expressing his ideas, asThe aforementioned historical machismo, in which the actions and ideas of women and any of their participations are omitted, since they are ideas without any importance, but mainly an intellectual machismo, which has the idea that the idea of womenThey are less suitable for logical or rational analysis and therefore are not considered. (‘Machismo: concept, types of machismo and origin’, 2019) On the other hand, women also addresses in a very derogatory way to show their disagreement with something, having a conversation with his wife, where he mentions the fragility ofA woman compared to that of a man and as we are weaker before a threat, “that shy females are stripped or complainant;But the males, the brave!… That is simply grotesque ”(López Portillo and Rojas. J. 2012, p. 60) With this phrase we can observe how the behavior of women in a situation like this according to the judge and the stereotype of the weakness of the female gender is predictable, instead in the masculine, a behavior like that would be unacceptable and reason for shame,since they do not represent the "male".
The second type of machismo represented in the story, is the one that is presented physically, in the actions and expressions of this character. You can see the temperament, strong and aggressive of the character based on his behavior and the sudden and stormy actions that he often has the wife (Otila).
Zendejo has a strong and bad character most of the time, it is mentioned that his temperament was very excitable, which sought to reasons and causes to enraged, "of a humor of a thousand demons". (López Portillo and Rojas. J. 2012, p. 60) It is often commented as Otila manages its rank arranges and the cloud of thunder that accompany it very frequently and how it is limited to not making comments out of place so that it does not anger her husband. "His wife, who was accustomed to those little fury", "but fearing that Zendejas would not carry the party in peace the joke, he just smiled, […]" (López Portillo and Rojas. J. 2012, p. 60) In this way he has to be careful in what he says, without having freedom to say everything he wants, in some of these gestures being derogatory towards his wife
"That nobody looks ugly, or touch her hair" for example, with actions he had how to answer with a snort, demonstrating arrogance, in other cases where he was tormented from a room or whipped his handsOn the table, when he disagrees with his wife, this could be anatomical machismdefending.
In conclusion, after analyzing the different types of machismo, represented in the story concluding that the verbal and physical language used in the story indicates the presence of machismo, speaking about the impact of the verbal tone and the strength of the actions andHow this is reflected in order to represent machismo in different fields, the intellectual, the historical, linguistic and anatomical, in different proportions throughout the story. As this forms a set of attitudes and behaviors that violate women, in this case the wife. In a clock without owner, the presence of falocracy is constant, as a daily language of Zendejas when addressing his wife. Analyzing how the language used helps to understand the character and temperament of the judge, as well as his way of thinking, which also influences the actions that are carried out throughout the story.
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