Female ascension in Dão-Lalalão

Light women like that detached without family ties without mixing with the needs of the day without work or difficulties: they were like birds with varied songs and many colours which we are always able to find one after the other in the tall trees of the forest in the lost heart of the world (Guimarães Rosa). This is how Guimarães portrays women in his work addressing various facets of the feminine universe in which holy women murderers prostitutes maidens virgin girls healers married ladies unmarried women women with double relationships wise women as well as submissive characters a marked presence in Brazilian patriarchal society appear. In 'Dão-Lalalão' the paradigm of this society is broken and its protagonist can be seen as a metaphor for female ascension breaking at times with this model of submission.