Anna In The Tropics Analysis

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Anna In the Tropics by Nilo Cruz, expresses various emotions during the course of the play. In the beginning, all was positive, there is anticipation for the arrival of the new Lector. Juan Julian would become the new Lector to read to the Cuban-Americans while the work in the hot and humid conditions. The book he chose to read the workers was a love story called Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. The title of this play mentions Anna which refers to the novel Anna Karenina. The title is like an allusion or almost foreshadowing for the future events that were to come. The Russian Novel speaks of a love triangle transpired, as with Anna in the Tropics.
By the end of Act One Scene 2, it was easy to spot out that there would be conflict between Santiago the owner of the cigar factory and his half-brother Cheche. When Santiago loses all
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Cheche has tried to many ways to get rid of JuanCheche wanting to modernize the cigar factory to anyone nowadays would seem like a great idea; but for people back in the late 20’s that was more of a taboo situation to turn to machinery. Ofelia did not want to hear Cheche out though because of how shady he seems. He wants more and more shares of the factory but forgets he is not the main Patriarch of the factory. Palomo made a great point though when he said, “Machines are stealing our jobs.” The machines would do that exact thing too. Modernizing the cigar factory and investing in machines may have been his way to get rid of Juan as well. Although the workers would run the machines but theoretically speaking that would eliminate Juan Julian’s job since the sounds of the machines would over power his speaking. Cheche also did not like the fact that his wages and the other worker wages were used to pay for a lector. I felt he was nonchalantly trying to push the workers more to get rid of

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