Alvarez painfully describes the feeling of a true artist - one that suffers painfully from the realization that the written word has the power to be more honest than what it attempts to describe. ... It is Alvarez's constant and unrelenting flow of anger that prompts the consideration she is both bitter about her experience in a new land and irate with her unpleasant American "captors". ...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School