Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them..." Genisis 19:6-8 (NIV)
Here, Lot(Nephew of Abraham) offers his two virgin daughters to every man in the City of Sodom. Of course this verse is open to interpretation. Go on and look it up if you want.
It's like how the father in Generations allowed her daughter to be raped by those army people, all for his own self-interest.
And now the daughter, near the last part, kills his father. The question is why didn't he just let his father rot in jail? She would never have been raped plus she wouldn't have had to kill her father. I don't really know the answer either. There must be some sort of underlying symbolism or something.
In my opinion, women can really use seduction to get almost whatever they want, specially if they're considered desirable by society's standards.
Perhaps she killed her father because she symbolized a new generation of women who were willing to take up radical means in order to achieve justice?
Ninotchka Rosca is a feminist, so I suppose that feminism would naturally be reflected in her literature.
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