![]() María Teresa is the vainest and youngest of the girls, but she also joins the underground early and is the only sister to experience direct torture from the SIM.ĭedé is then the only sister to accept her fear and choose to avoid getting involved with the “butterflies.” At first she seems like a coward for this, and her guilt haunts her for years, but in the end Alvarez shows how Dedé too has been brave. Patria struggles with the pacifism and neutrality of her faith and husband, but she ultimately chooses to risk her life and join the rebellion. Minerva is the most naturally courageous and outspoken sister, and the one who leads the other sisters in political activity, but even she finds it difficult to keep up her role as a national symbol of courage. Among the Mirabal sisters, who are all normal, middle-class women encouraged to not make trouble, each sister must make her personal choice between courage and cowardice once she experiences the evils of the Trujillo regime. There are spies and informers everywhere, and people distrust even their own family members. ![]() ![]() The Dominican populace is divided and afraid under Trujillo, and every character has their own struggle between courage and cowardice.
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