Dedé’s engagement was not as romantic as it was inevitable. She marries her cousin, which is a common arrangement in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s. Her family was wealthier than the general middle class, but she experiences financial hardship with her husband’s failed business ventures and when her sisters and their families are forced to move in with her. She is very loyal to her family, even offering to stay behind and run the family business before starting her education.
Dedé’s character gives insight to the average Dominican household and the common people’s involvement in the revolution.Īlthough Dedé has famous sisters, she lived an ordinary life. Alvarez chooses to emphasize Dedé’s story to recreate the family dynamic that is lost in the sisters’ heroic representation and to provide a more common perspective of the revolution. The second oldest of these four sisters, Dedé, is the least well known, as she had the least amount of involvement in the movement and was not assassinated with her sisters.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez tells the story of the figureheads of the revolution in the Dominican Republic in the mid-twentieth century: the Mirabal sisters.
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