5. ed. So Paulo: It stokes 1977. 116, 117). It is followed it, Pombinha. The personage if corrupts due to the place and way where she lives, showing clearly the strong characteristic of the Naturalismo, and the Determinismo that defends that the individual is product of the way where she lives.
Also it is gift in the romance, ideas of the evolucionismo under the scientific aspect. The narrator, very next to the personages, in them describes a place, the tenement house, where if he develops the so natural promiscuity to the distant naturalismo and of the romantismo. The narrative in them still describes the tenement house as an impersonatied personage, who is treated in some stretches as only personage representing a collective. We still find the use of Zoomorfismo based on the ideas of Emile Zola where the narrator makes the comparison of the personages with animals. Explicit it the animalizao of the human being moved by the instinct and the sexual desire. The narrator accents the degradation of the individuals approaching them of animals, giving they nicknames ' ' Leandra with ancas of animal of campo' ' ' ' Baby as one enguia' ' the personages also xingam with names of animals ' ' co' ' ' ' vaca' ' ' ' galinha' ' ' ' porco' ' the narrator underneath uses a nickname of zoomrfica characterization of the creatures, leveling them. The Tenement house follows the rules of the materialism that has, in Emile Zola, its great master. as it defines Coutinho: The naturalismo accents the qualities of the realism, adding a conception of life sees that it as intercurso of mechanical forces on the individuals, resulting the acts, the character and the destination of these of the performance of the hereditary succession and the environment. The scientific spirit of objetividade and imparcialidade also makes with that the naturalist introduces in literature all the subjects and activities of the man, the beastly and repulsive aspects of the life, giving preference to the layers lowest of the society.