'Her head-turning fault'
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Ella mesmo é que tem a culpa d’ elle andar assim com a cabeça virada.
She herself is the one to blame for his going about with his head so turned.
Rosa lands the decisive stroke of the classic slander: 'Ella mesmo é que tem a culpa' — she herself is to blame — for Leôncio's infatuation, his head 'virada,' turned. It is victim-blaming in its purest form: the persecuted woman is made responsible for her persecutor's desire. For a jealous Malvina this is the sweetest poison, since it lets her aim her hurt at Isaura instead of at her husband, and it is exactly the 'resultado' Rosa is working toward.
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