Nick Joaquin's short story entitled "Three Generations" focuses on many aspects of life. It can easily be understand that the story concentrates on the prospect of equality, sexuality, decision making, inheritance and culture. There are certain binary oppositions that appeared like man over woman, good and evil and past and present.
In the first scene it appears that Celo Monzon or the older Monzon was evil and his wife Donia Sofia Monzon was good in this conversation.
Sofia: "It is about Chitong. He does not want to continue the law course he is taking. The boy has a vocation, Celo. He wants to study for the prieshood."
Celo: "When did he speak to you?"
Sofia: "About a month ago."
Celo: "Well, I would have never expected it of him."
On the second scene when Celo Monzon went to the Dominican Church to visit his son Chitong, it clearly appeared that Celo Monzon was looking back back to his past. When he lived an unhappy childhood life under his parents care. He detested his father for beating him and his mother. Proving that men are more dominant than women.
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