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This article offers an examination of the roles of women in Mexico and the U.S. in the novel 'Women in the Crystal Frontier' by Carlos Fuentes. The writer shows that the author aims the criticism at prejudice and exploitation. Further, the writer demonstrates Fuentes' argument for greater understanding and acceptance of others.

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"In Carlos Fuentes' 'The Crystal Frontier' the author presents a number of stories all linked in one manner or another to the character of Don Leonardo, a wealthy Mexican businessman, who has few qualms about increasing his self-interests at the expense of his less fortunate countrymen. In many ways these stories depict the inequality between Mexicans and Americans, elites and peasants and men and women. From Mexican servants to wealthy elites and Americans ... "

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