Lastly, I will conclude by supporting or disclaiming Stringer’s argument with my own perspective of Junot Diaz’s “Drown”.
In abstract, Junot Diaz is a Dominican author, who uses his short story “Drown” to express his personal experience as a Dominican Republic immigrant in the United States who intends to assimilate into American culture. In this collection of short stories, Diaz establishes a theoretical dilemma for Yunior, a Dominican immigrant, who is pursuing the American Dream. The theoretical dilemma magnifies poverty, citizenship, and sexuality as a few of the problems of a Dominican immigrant assimilating into American culture. Diaz discusses various societal structures that are altered over a lifespan of growing up as an immigrant in the