Garcia Girls Reflection 1

I think that the authors purpose in this story was to show how the lives of immigrant Americans are different from the lives of regular Americans that were born here. I can sort of tell because she describes the lives of her and her sisters after they arrived in America. She talks about how America has changed them, and how different they seem from when they had first arrived from the Dominican Republic. I also feel that they have had a lot of bad luck in their lives. They have had a lot of bad relationships, and they have a lot of bad luck with the men that they choose. For example, Yolanda has had a lot of bad breakups and a lot of bad relationships with men. She also went crazy, got sentenced to a crazy house, and still managed to fall in love with a doctor working there. She had also previously gotten into a marriage with a man named John. She felt unsure when they had gotten married, and they eventually broke up. They had started out loving each other, but they eventually drifted further and further apart. They broke up when she found out that he had to make a list to decide whether or not to marry her. She also met this man named Rudy while in college. He seemed nice at first, but it turned out that he only went to her because he wanted to have sex with her. He spent a couple of months with her, and they had also written a pornographic manuscript with her. They grew very close, but then broke apart when Yolanda found out. Also, five years later, Rudy showed up at Yolanda’s house again, with a bottle of champagne, and all he said to her was “It looks like you’ve gotten over your old hangups, so Jesus Christ, lets just fuck.” I feel that this was one of the many parts of her life where men have really messed with her, and where she has had her feelings trampled on over and over. Sadly, this may not be the only time where such a jerk does that to her and messes her life and feelings up.