Why did she do that?

The story of "Generations" by Ninotchka Rosca, for me was undeniably one of the best short stories our Filipino writers came up with. Exemplifying the simplicity and innocence of the ravaged ordinary youth that are disrupted by the gigantic existence of opression on our society.
Although it wasn't sort of a fantasy story, it featured the primary elements Iv'e been looking for in a story such as "what if" situations, suspense and protagonists against violence; while depicting public opression that is existing in the country.

Although our writer, in my own opinion can be considered as one of the exemplary contemporary writers there is. She also used fantastical elements that made it easier for me to relate into the story. All in all, she is a major factory of great stories.

Aside from these huge number of comments towards her work, I think that Rosca missed one important thing in her story; that is making the girl (who was the potential protagonist) a sort of disrupted villain. The canon writers before through their works of "My Father goes to court","Bread of Salt" and "The Corral" all reflected the good traits of Filipinos that makes us globally outstanding. But Rosca, has seemed to place the girl in a very bad situation. She was type who was sent by the family to beauty contests and hopefully makes inte the major tv networks. She has the capacity to place herself and the whole family into a better situation. She was the promising daughter of a humble family who became a notorious criminal.

One horrible incident turned her from a rose into a cauliflower. Her messed up father screwed up(probably a lot of times before already) and so in an attempt to save her dad she got herself used and she eventually ended up smashing her father to death. In the first place, she shouldn't have had herself harassed and turned up very miserably. She got rid of her life and so she screwed up badly. The ending of the story was like an empty honeycomb for the family.

This reflects how much the common citizens are deprived of getting the right amount of justice and how it seriously damages the structure of our community that leaves a mark for decades to come. The writer could have used her manipulative writing into reflecting the better traits of our nation.