Minerva and Mate's Reaction to Their Father's Secret

         Enrique Maribal had a secret he tried to keep from his family in the book.  That secret was that he had another woman in his life with whom he had four children with.  The Mother of the Maribal sister's knew about this but tried to keep it away from her daughters.  Patria the oldest daughter had found out first by being intuitive and reading her mother and understanding what was happening by comparing it to what happened in her marriage life so far with Pedro.  However, I believe that Minerva and Mate's reactions though both negative were different.
     Minerva had found out by discovering the family first and when she got really mad she rammed her car into his and never really forgave him.  She lost all respect for him and things were never the same for their relationship as father and daughter.  However, Minerva accepted the fact pretty quickly and helped her four half sisters.  She wasn't rude to them she blamed her father for being a weak and stupid man not the woman.  This could be because of her attitude about women being independent and her wanted to be a lawyer.
     On the other hand Mate found out by discovering her other half sisters at her father's funeral.  She was already devastated by her father's death and then she finds out her father had a whole other family.  All this at once had to be a slap in the face.  However, unlike Minerva she gets angry at the half sisters.  I believe she thinks this way partly because her father isn't there.  However, she does mention that she hates men at the moment because of what her father did.  While she was jealous of the other children her father had she was also made at her father maybe because of Minerva?  Minerva is the sister Mate most looks up to so maybe she got this idea from her sister but she really felt the anger towards the half sisters.  So in Mate's reaction I feel like there was a combination of both her own feelings and Minerva's feelings.
     All the sister's found out the secret and hurt them and changed them as people.  They opened up to the real world that may have led them to look at men in a different light.  Was their father no different the Trujillo when it came to women?  They had to now see the true light of the culture and place they lived in.  It was an eye opener in the story.