Gender roles in Junot Díaz' Drown
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The document is an excerpt from the short story "Drown" by Junot Díaz. It describes Yunior waiting to meet up with Aurora, a woman he has a volatile relationship with involving physical abuse towards each other. The excerpt reflects on their relationship through vignettes of past interactions, expressing both nostalgia for happier times together as well as detachment from the physical and emotional harm they cause one another.
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- 2. •Narrator: “Earlier today me and Cut drove down South River and bought some more smoke.” (47) • Topic: “Cut’s still giggling over the cookies, and me, I’m just waiting for Aurora to show up.” (47)
- 4. “We haven’t seen each other for a week. Not since she put some scratches on my arm.” (48) here “We hurt each other too well to let it drop.” (52) “She once tried to jam a pen y my thigh, but that was the night I punched her chest black-and-blue so I don’t think it counts.” (53)
- 5. • nostalgia • detachment Love and relationship—and abuse “I’d put my arm around her and I wouldn’t let her go for like fifty years, maybe not ever.” (61)
- 6. Lauren Derby
- 7. Takes us back to the Dominican Republic Yunior’s childhood memories Nostalgia
Editor's Notes
- enduring, all they had to endure