Analysis Of Yolanda In How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez

In Julia Alvarez’s novel How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Yolanda, one of the main characters as well as one of the narrators, is a woman who is unlike most women of her culture. One can see how Yolanda is different when she bashes her cousin for being all done up. When Yolanda sees her cousin again for the first time again she recalls that “In her designer pantsuit and frosted, blown-out hair, Lucinda looks like a Dominican magazine model, a look that has always made Yolanda think of call girls” (Alvarez 11). Yolanda calling her cousin a “call girl” shows that she thinks her cousin’s style is way too much. Yolanda seems to be interested in a more simple type of style. Furthermore, Yolanda’s differences are visible when she rejects