The Cheater's Guide To Love Analysis

Prompt #3: “Most often, literary works have both internal conflict (individual v. self) and external conflict (individual v. individual, society, nature, or technology)”.

Working Thesis: Diaz J. wrote an article about a recuperating cheater bouncing back to reality after destroying not only his fiancé through his lies, but himself along the process.

After years of deception, a man is finally caught cheating on his soon to be wife as the repercussions begin to present themselves from then on. “The Cheater’s Guide to Love” by Junot Diaz begins when a man’s fiancée explores through his e-mail trash and discovers the skeletons lurking in his closet. Junot Diaz presents a 3rd person point of view perspective, while the perspective of the reader

Everything that went completely wrong encouraged his fiancé’s decision of breaking up with him for good. With the unjustifiable actions he committed, the constant deprivation of all the mutual friends and even family members that loved him only because of her or loved her more in general damaged his social pillar of resilience. With all of this going on, his physical and mental pillars of resiliency are being challenged. Stages of despair start to show as he doesn’t work out at the gym anymore, which in the long run harms physical health. An excessive amount of filthy clothing continues to pile up along with seizing all daily life routines and activities that contributed to his character and grooming requirements. With more heavy drinking and having impulsive thoughts of suicide while under the influence of alcohol, the challenges to deal with everyday life are becoming more demanding. “Depression is a common mental health problem which can be caused by different factors, ranging from environmental to neurochemical, which may be experienced for a short period only or persist long term, and which can present with a range of symptoms, including low mood, lack of energy, loss of appetite, inability to experience pleasure