“Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.”(Alfred Lord Tennyson). These are words Oscar Wao unknowingly lived by. As teenagers and frankly as humans, many people focus on finding a person to love and in return be loved. This same idea applies to a Mister Oscar Wao. He desperately wants to find love. Desperately meaning he fell in love with every girl he saw. The only thing holding Oscar back is what he believes is the fukú. The fukú is a curse put on a family for many, many generations. Oscar believes his lack of success in the love department is due to the fukú placed on his family. Thought out Junot Díaz’s novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, Díaz, allows the reader to follow the lives of people involved
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He once was a ladies man as a child, but grew out of that rather quickly when it came to his teenage years. Each girl he falls for only increases the danger involved with his ‘love’. During Oscar’s senior year of high school, Oscar quickly falls in love with a girl from his SAT prep class, Ana Obregón. She is a “pretty, loudmouth gordita”. Oscar and Ana develop a friendship and just when Oscar thinks their relationship is going somewhere other than platonic, Ana abusive ex-boyfriend comes back in to town. After Ana is beaten by her boyfriend, Manny, Oscar exhibits dangerous behavior. Oscar, “stuck [its] impressive snout down the front of his pants and proceeded to stand in front of Manny’s building almost the entire night” (46) Oscar was ready and more than willing to shoot Manny because the way he treated Ana. He wanted to he the only man in Ana’s eyes. The progression of the danger of Oscars relationship with love begins in that moment. Díaz has this moment be in the beginning of the novel to highlight the beginning of a onward trend with Oscar. Oscar thought that, “ … Ana was his last f*cking chance for happiness…he’d never ever in all his miserable eighteen years of life experienced anything like he’d felt when he was around that girl”(47) The reader begins to see Oscar’s unhealthy attachment and attraction towards Ana. Díaz has these events take place at the start of the novel to show
He once was a ladies man as a child, but grew out of that rather quickly when it came to his teenage years. Each girl he falls for only increases the danger involved with his ‘love’. During Oscar’s senior year of high school, Oscar quickly falls in love with a girl from his SAT prep class, Ana Obregón. She is a “pretty, loudmouth gordita”. Oscar and Ana develop a friendship and just when Oscar thinks their relationship is going somewhere other than platonic, Ana abusive ex-boyfriend comes back in to town. After Ana is beaten by her boyfriend, Manny, Oscar exhibits dangerous behavior. Oscar, “stuck [its] impressive snout down the front of his pants and proceeded to stand in front of Manny’s building almost the entire night” (46) Oscar was ready and more than willing to shoot Manny because the way he treated Ana. He wanted to he the only man in Ana’s eyes. The progression of the danger of Oscars relationship with love begins in that moment. Díaz has this moment be in the beginning of the novel to highlight the beginning of a onward trend with Oscar. Oscar thought that, “ … Ana was his last f*cking chance for happiness…he’d never ever in all his miserable eighteen years of life experienced anything like he’d felt when he was around that girl”(47) The reader begins to see Oscar’s unhealthy attachment and attraction towards Ana. Díaz has these events take place at the start of the novel to show