As the plot develop itself, we can see a variety of problematic binaries. One in special, is beauty x grotesque. The first chapter has as a title: "Rosa the beautiful", which insinuates that the reader will see beautiful descriptions, but as the reader goes through the chapter, the beauty is contradicted by Barrabas' arrival for example, or the situations in which Clara get involved in the church. For the characters it become a role in which everything starts to contradict itself, beginning by Clara's beauty and her strange powers.