Time and time again we see moments where a man shows how masculine they can be and how a woman shows her femininity, whether you see it in books, tv shows, movies, and telenovelas. Junot Díaz’s book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, tends to show us how a man is suppose to act to show masculinity and how women are suppose to act to it. Díaz portrays this in characters such as Yunior, Oscar, The Gangster, Lola, Belicia, and Ana. These characters portray their roles in gender of how they are suppose to be.
In the book the some of the female characters Díaz introduces us to is Lola, Belicia, and Ana. They show femininity by having to embrace some female like stereotypes. An example of this is when Oscar’s mother, Belicia, gets upset when she sees his reading a comic book she kicks …show more content…
In this piece of text we can infer that Beli is saying that a woman staying inside the house to cook, clean, and take care of the kids, while men go out to play and exercise. Another female character who does the same thing as Oscar’s mother is his sister Lola. We see thing when she says “I believed her I was the perfect hija.I was the one cooking, cleaning, doing the wash, buying groceries...I stayed home and made sure Oscar was fed”(56). Here Lola does everything that her mother does, she cooks, cleans, makes sure that Oscar is fed, and that she tells the banks when they were going to be late to pay rent. Later Lola tells her mother that she was done when her neighbor raped her and her mom just says “All you do is complain”. Which can mostly mean that women have to take the crap that men give them and they just have to take it and say nothing. Ana Obregón is someone who Oscar fell in love with when he was a senior
In the book the some of the female characters Díaz introduces us to is Lola, Belicia, and Ana. They show femininity by having to embrace some female like stereotypes. An example of this is when Oscar’s mother, Belicia, gets upset when she sees his reading a comic book she kicks …show more content…
In this piece of text we can infer that Beli is saying that a woman staying inside the house to cook, clean, and take care of the kids, while men go out to play and exercise. Another female character who does the same thing as Oscar’s mother is his sister Lola. We see thing when she says “I believed her I was the perfect hija.I was the one cooking, cleaning, doing the wash, buying groceries...I stayed home and made sure Oscar was fed”(56). Here Lola does everything that her mother does, she cooks, cleans, makes sure that Oscar is fed, and that she tells the banks when they were going to be late to pay rent. Later Lola tells her mother that she was done when her neighbor raped her and her mom just says “All you do is complain”. Which can mostly mean that women have to take the crap that men give them and they just have to take it and say nothing. Ana Obregón is someone who Oscar fell in love with when he was a senior