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On the surface the story is about a family that is preparing to travel to a party for some relatives. The real story that comes out is not the story of the festival but of the affair the father is having with a Puerto Rican woman. The story is told from a first person perspective of Yunior. Yunior is the middle brother and has a problem of becoming nauseous when driving in his father’s new VW van. Yunior in the middle of the story recounts to us information about an affair that his father is having with a Puerto Rican, “I met the Puerto Rican women right after Papi had gotten the van.”(155) Using flashback Diaz is able to create for us a picture of how the father’s actions are having detrimental effects on his entire
