In the short story “Never Marry a Mexican,” the author, Sandra Cisneros, creates several important factors which affect how the narrator views marriage and life. Different key events and certain people impact her perspectives of marriage. Each of these events and people have specific contributions which help develop her character.
At the beginning of the story, the narrator distinguishes her opinion on marriage right away. Her thoughts on men and marriage are very direct and she subtly hints that she had been through an emotionally disturbing experience with a man prior to telling the story. To build up to this experience, she starts by giving depressing flashbacks from her childhood and young adult years. The relationship between her mother and father was never at all strong or romantic. This could be a key factor for her opinion on marriage and also could explain why she begins to make part of her living in the form of prostitutio
In conclusion, all of these events contribute greatly to the person she becomes throughout the story. Her views however, are not very justifiable because before the relationship began, she stated that she was not interested in romance. It was strictly sex. But she does seem to somewhat except the fact she will never marry and will continue her role of prostitution to satisfy herself over time.
n. She seems very insecure in how she handles herself and doesn’t feel she belongs to anyone after her father dies. “After Daddy died, it was like we didn’t matter. Like Ma was so busy feeling sorry for herself, I don’t know.”(238) She also feels sorry for herself and selling her body to men may give her a feeling a power which temporarily relieves her sad thoughts.
The most important event that impacts her perspective on marriage is her relationship with an older man named Drew. Drew tells Clemencia exactly what she wants to hear
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