Life is probably perfect when you’re ignorant. Julio was a multi millionaire businessman who attract any girl he wanted to with all the money he had. However, he wasn’t sure of his abilities and potential causing him to get married at an early age. He believed that the woman he had was his first and last true love and that he could not get anything better than her. Her name was Lydia, she always got what she wanted, the manipulative type of person who played with his everyone’s emotions every time she has the opportunity to. Julio mostly never spent time home because he was too busy with his work since after all that’s the only thing he was good at. Rumors in throughout the entire city should not surprise you. Several people said that Lydia …show more content…
Julio, felt so surprised and with a knot on his throat that he could not manage to answer him back and just ended the call.
4:00 pm, Julio leaves his office and on his way he chose to grab a drink. He believed that he would clam himself after a drink but felt worse in the inside, not only due to the fact that he could not feel more miserable after being cheated on but, by flashbacks he got with his dad who died of alcoholism five years ago. The motel was not so far away from his office; as he arrived he took a deep breath and asked the friendly receptionist the room’s direction. “213 is not that close. First turn right, and walk until room 200 then finally turn left. You will be able to find the room right away.” Said the smilingly receptionist. Meanwhile Julio made his way to the room, he thought of different ways to react or say whenever he reached his destination. His thoughts and feelings were all mixed up, he had no idea on how should he
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Julio hesitated and struggled on whether what he was doing was a good idea or not. After 20 seconds of courage he knocked the door. Some noises could be heard from the inside. To get a better perception of what was going on he placed his right ear on the door and heard Lydia’s voice who sound as if she was having too much fun. Without any second thought, he shouted, “Lydia, I am right here, open the door right now”
As expected, the voices stopped and no one dared to answer. Without giving up, Julio kept on knocking hoping someone would open. After about 15 minutes he gave up, sat outside and waited. Hours passed by and Julio could not stop thinking on how he could have been used that way. Everything he had done was for her, everything planned in life was thought with her by his side. It was shocking to realize how everyone else knew about this except for him. Disappointment was his second name at that moment.
It was now 7pm, and Oscar opened the door to leave. Julio, who fell asleep for some minutes, woke up immediately and stared at him with a wide open mouth. His watery eyes shined with the sunset’s colors reflection.
“Oscar? Seriously man I thought you were my friend”, wined Julio. “I trusted you with all my heart. I would have never expected something like this from
Gregory heard someone giggle. He banged on the flat of his hand on the door “Let me in. Gregory. Let me in” There was nothing but silence… He waited and called again, but there was no response so he wondered away. He couldn’t demand to be let in and pleading would do no good.
Since he has done criminal acts in the pass to earn his money, he cannot win the love of his life, Daisy. One being wealthy can live a corrupt life because high-class people are not always happy, society views them as someone who is formal, which leads to one living a false life, and believing one’s whole life that the world revolves around oneself and that money can do anything they want it to do. Just because affluent people can have almost anything they want, does not mean they are living a jubilant life. According to the text, “...his dream must seemed so close that he could hardly fail to
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Cleofilas, had an illusion that all romances are like the ones she has seen on television. However, she soon realizes that her relationship with Juan Pedro was nothing like what she had dreamed it would be. Cisneros wants to emphasize the idea that when men bring home the primary source of income in the family, they feel they have power over their wives. Cisneros uses Juan Pedro in the story to portray this idea. For instance, Cleofilas often tells herself that if she had any brains in her, she would realize that Juan Pedro wakes up before the rooster to earn his living to pay for the food in her belly and a roof over her head (Cisneros, 1991, p.249). Cisneros wants to make a point that when men feel that they have power over their wives, women begin to feel a sense of low self-worth.
Not all characters get a happy ending, and a particular character’s husband turned out to be someone much different than who she believed to be marrying. Through dishonesty, confusion, and chicanery, each character had a helping hand in dishing out each other’s fate, but nonetheless, the relationships that resulted in a law-binding marriage beat destiny and overcame every hardship standing in the way of love and happiness.
Furthermore, Sally, an innocent friend of Esperanza, tries to escape her father’s cruel beatings through marriage, but her circumstances do not change, her husband still treats her as her father has in the past. “ He won’t let her talk on the phone. In addition, he does not let her look out the window. In addition, he does not like her friends so nobody can visit her unless he is working. Sally’s father controlled her and now it is her husband; she thinks that she is escaping when in reality she is just giving the leash to someone else. Sally chose the easiest way out of her life, marriage, she did not see the unfavorable
Daisy, for example, lives a miserable life, even though she appears otherwise. On the outside, she seems to have everything—a happy marriage, wealth, and beauty— which also connects to the American dream. Her relationship with Tom may appear to be perfect, however their marriage is marked by adultery, deception, and dissatisfaction. She married him only because she had to for his wealth and reputation. Daisy finds out that Tom has an affair with another woman in New York, but she does not leave him when Gatsby gives her the chance to.
Julio – A man in his late 20s (who is in touch with his feminine side)
He encounters a girl with whom he falls in love with. However, in the Mexican culture, the youngest born daughter may not marry; she must act as a servant to her mother until her mother passes on. Just by being born the last girl in her family, Tita’s destiny has already been decided for her. She cannot live her life the way she wants to live. Instead, Tita must live her life according to her mother’s demands. Additionally, Tita has lived a very difficult life: her one true love, Pedro, marries her sister, Rosaura, because Tita is not allowed to marry while her mother lives. Tita must watch as the love of her life loves another woman; Tita must suffer as she watches Pedro become the father of another woman’s child. In Mexican culture, people are expected to hide their emotions, especially women. Women are expected to mask their true emotions because even when their life is falling to pieces, they need to hide their true selves and pretend to be a proper women; women are expected to mask whatever emotional distress they face from the rest of society. Even though Tita does so much for her family, as soon as she experiences emotional difficulties, her family sends her to an insane asylum; as a reward for cooking for her family and taking care of her mother, Tita’s family calls in the doctor to take her away, even though she
Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the rich couple, seem to have everything they could possibly want. Though their lives are full of anything you could imagine, they are unhappy and seek to change, Tom drifts on "forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"(pg. 10) and reads "deep books with long words in them"(pg. 17) just so he has something to talk about. Even though Tom is married to Daisy he has an affair with Myrtle Wilson and has apartment with her in New York.. Daisy is an empty character, someone with hardly any convictions or desires. Even before her relationships with Tom or, Gatsby are seen, Daisy does nothing but sit around all day and wonder what to do with herself and her friend Jordan. She knows that Tom is having an affair, yet she doesn't leave him even when she hears about Gatsby loving her. Daisy lets Gatsby know that she too is in love with him but cant bring herself to tell Tom goodbye except when Gatsby forces her too. Even then, once Tom begs her to stay, even then Daisy forever leaves Gatsby for her old life of comfort. Daisy and Tom are perfect examples of wealth and prosperity, and the American Dream. Yet their lives are empty, and without purpose.
Esperanza talks to an old man, and he interupts her and asks, “If I give you a dollar will you kiss me?” Esperanza realizes that in the real world, there will be men who take advantage of women, and thinks, “We are tired of being beautiful.” (41-42) She understands that her beauty attracts men, and she does not want to get taken advantage of again. Rafaela's husband makes sure that she cannot do anything he can do. “And then Rafaela, who is still young but getting old from leaning out the window so much, gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at.” (79) Rafaela’s husband locks her in their house while he is gone during the day. He is worried that, “Rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at”. This reveals how men take advantage of women, just because of the way they look. Rafaela’s husband knows that men will do this to Rafaela, and he doesn’t let Rafaela go out and do what men can do. Men do not allow women to have the same opportunities they do and trap them with a life as their wife, and nothing more. Minerva is getting abused by her husband, and “she comes over back and blue and asks what she can do? Minerva. I don’t know which way she’ll go. There is nothing I can do.” (85) Minerva’s
Sally is a common occurrence in Esperanza’s community; she lacks self-confidence and determination. In “Linoleum Roses,” Esperanza describes Sally’s post-marriage life. She says, “Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money… Except he won’t let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn’t let her look out the window. And he doesn’t like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working. She sits at home because she is afraid to go outside without his permission.” Sally lacks the qualities of self-confidence and determination; due to this, she lets herself fall into a trap disguised as marriage. Now, she has no control over her life. Her husband decides everything for her, and she is afraid to say no to him. Sally’s lack of two important qualities lets her give herself away to her husband. Now, her fate lies solely in his
Little Ann opened the door to Billy and Billy walked through it with no fear. Then,
Many are confined in a marriage in which they are unhappy with, and are reductant to make a change. Some are committed to make a change for themselves. Esperanza ponders each one of these women's lives. Through each role model Esperanza gains crucial life lessons on how to overcome different life hardships. Through some women like her great-grandmother and Ruthie, Esperanza learns she must take control her fate, to avoid marrying young, and not let a male figure dictate her future. Other women like Alicia, Esperanza learns to keep pursuing goals in life and to take control of her destiny no matter what obstruction may lay ahead. From Esperanza’s role models, the moral lesson that can be taken away is to be proactive about your life and to shape your own future. Everyone is a role model to somebody in their life. Strive to leave a positive message behind for the ones shadowing in your
Evidently, with what readers presume to be the “man of her dreams”, Clemencia's mother seems to be in her own world as she completely disregards her life with her former husband and their children. This does not bode well for Clemencia as she holds a lot of resentment towards her mother, that will likely never resolve due to the fact that Clemencia's mom is not around in the world anymore. Even though, her mother may not be in this world anymore, Clemencia will always wonder why her mom did marry her father.
Although marriage has caused the suffering of many of the women in her neighborhood, she realizes that she needs men to fulfill the new desires she attains as she hits adolescence. Through the novel, Esperanza matures both physically and mentally. The first thing that struck me about this novel was that the chapters were very short. I realized that the narrator is young and has a short attention span, judging from her fragmented observations.