This Is How You Lose Her Analysis

“This is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz is a collection of stories that describe the lives of people from the Dominican Republic living in the United States. Though are many characters in this book, Junot Diaz focuses a large portion of it on Yunior and more or less his family in different points in time. Through Yunior’s charter Diaz is able to show the ways masculinity and race is interconnected. Ranging from when Yunior was young up to when he was old, we can see the negative effects that junior’s race and masculinity play in his live and in the lives of those around him. Throughout the book Diaz uses different character such as Yunior’s mom and other women to describe what a Dominican man is. For example, when junior is caught cheating most blames the cheating as a result of being a Dominican man. Here there is some notion that all Dominican men are the same; they all just want one thing and that is sex, and if they cheat …show more content…
Yunior is the perfect example that illustrates the negative affects that being a prototypical, has described throughout this book, Dominican man. At one point in his life Junior was with the love of his life and almost married, but his soon to be wife found out about insane cheating habits and leaves later leaves him. All Yunior really knows is how to be a man that goes after women because of his upbringing and his race; he even calls himself a sex addict. He feels the need to be this way, but the result nearly destroys him. Junior states,” he feels terribly guilty and terribly alone”(183). Junior feels again abandoned that his own mother won’t even talk to him. As a consequent of his musicality and the perceived notions pertaining to his race and women, Yunior has lost a lot and it seems as if he will live the rest of his life alone as a result of his