Summary Of Never Marry A Mexican By Sandra Cisneros

Never Marry a Mexican is a short story by Sandra Cisneros. The story is about a girl named a girl named Clemencia who runs by the words of her mother, her mother always told her “never marry a mexican”. Clemencia never wants to get married anymore, “marriage had failed [her]”, instead Clemencia likes her men “borrowed” now. But the question is: is it really because she has everlasting feeling of lust or does she want to seek revenge?

Her mother was a Mexican born in the United States, and her dad was from Mexico City, a true Mexican as they say. Her parents were from different cultures, her mom used newspaper as a placemat, whereas her dad was used to eating in silverware. Her mom had married young and never had adjusted into her dad’s lifestyle. Her mom when her dad was sick was having an affair with a white man, I think this was a point in Clemencia 's life where she really starting losing faith in her dreams of marriage, her mother had shattered her dreams, Clemencia “believed too

When Drew rejects Clemencia, she moves on to his son, controlling and sleeping with him, staying in power. I think by controlling her son, she wants to show Drew that she controls him. Drew was the only thing that she wanted, in fact she wanted to be with him but he said he wouldn’t leave his wife. One thing to note is that she sleeps with those, whose affair when comes out in the open could hurt someone and those that are Mexican, she doesn’t consider them to be “potential lovers”. Drew’s affair would hurt his wife, and Drew’s son’s affair would hurt Drew. Clemencia becomes like “La Malinche” who is always “guilty of betray” (Wyatt). She may not be directly betraying anyone but she is the reason for the betrayal. She wants others to feel what she felt when her mother betrayed her for someone from a different