Eva's cultural function within Eva Luna is to depict the endorsed gender stereotypes and oppression of the lower classes in order to show how that contributes to the cultural diversity within the fictive South American culture. Eva is the central female character in the novel and is constantly marginalised because of this. On the day of her birth she is classified as "bad luck" because of her not being a boy. She is taught from a very young age "men [have] it best" and women need to get married in order to be "complete." The domesticated job of being a servant throughout her entire childhood and the idea that men are masters over women is indicative of the endorsed stereotypical gender roles of that society. Eva does not have much faith in any religion in specific, she was baptised due to the insistence of her madrina and grew...