In the story, both of the main characters appear to be very lonely. They seem to struggle every other Friday night to fill this immense social void. The characters spend money and laugh loudly, however only as an attempt to fit in, which really shows how lonely they are. Cisneros may have chosen loneliness as here theme because of her father and his past experiences. As Cisneros reminisces in On Writing she says “Some of the stories he has told about his first months in the United States with little or no English surface in my stories.”(248). The theme could also come from the many times Cisneros herself has felt alone in past experiences, such at the Iowa Writers Workshop about which she says “I felt foreign and ou

The last example of irony that Cisneros uses is when she wrote “Every other Friday the man drank his beer and laughed loudly. Every other Friday the woman drank her beer and laughed loudly” (Cisneros 237). It is really quite ironic how both of the main characters are so similar in their feelings, empty rituals, and loneliness yet so distant from contact due to a different payday.

routine of spending money and laughing with friends. The moon being alone and surrounded by an infinite blackness, symbolizes the loneliness the two feel at the end of the story. The man and the woman find themselves out of the light of the bar and friends, and into the dark of their lonely homes. There they are isolated and alone like the lonely blue illumination of the moon on a dark night. As the only girl in a family of seven children, Cisneros spent a lot of time by herself. As research from Gale research states, Cisneros became a quiet, careful observer of the people and events around her, and recorded her feelings through secret writings at home (Gale 1).

With Cisneros being a feminist you can see that it is evident she sees men and women united as human beings not divided by gender. She relates the two characters as though they are one in the same, and if she had not written one was a man and one was a woman, then one would think they were the same person and gender. “Cisneros is known to attack artificial feminine stereotypes” states Jeff Thompson (249). Her brothers attempts to make her assume a traditional female role is reflected in the feminist strains of her writing, glorifying heroines who dream of economic independence and celebrating the "wicked" sexuality of women (Classic Notes 1). Cisneros loves to portray woman as equal to, or greater than men.

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