Sandra cisneros marriage

Paper 1 Draft 1 Never Marry a Mexican After reading the “Never Marry a Mexican”, it is unfair to judge a person’s popular culture by his or her ethnicity. Sandra Cisneros named her short story by a sentence which heroine’s mother said once and always during her childhood. Furthermore, the heroine in this story represents La Malinche. The bad archetypes in the Mexican culture [Why are they bad archetypes? Explain this]. In some aspects, the heroine in this story does not represent the typical bad woman in Mexican culture. In my opinion, this woman is lost in love, she could not solely be regard as a bad woman. We could analyze her struggle between the identity of virgin and the whore to understand her behaviors. . First of all, I want to solve the question that does this woman became “La Malinche” at the beginning? [Before this, explain who was La Malinche. Explain your reference to the reader.] My answer is no. She once believed love when she was younger..”There was a time when all I wanted was to belong to a man.”(Page 68). However, the tragedy is that she falls in love with a wrong person. When she was a student, when she first met Drew, she was a “Virgen de Guadalupe”. [Explain the Virgen de la Guadalupe and how is Clemencia like her?] However, the man called Drew change her life. Even though she said she makes love with Drew, while his wife laboring their son’s birth, I feel distressed for her. Why I feel compassion for her? Because I could imagine her helpless when she met Drew. As a student, as a teenager, and because the heroine lost her father when she was young, she could not holdout Drew’s love, such attractive man’s love. So Sandra Cisneros let this innocent girl fallen as a “La Malinche”. Secondly, I want to analyze the reason why the woman’s mind changed. Drew is the no-doubt reason, however, I want to focus on her mother. Her mother, as the other important reason for her change, can not be ignoring. Her mother told her when she was young to “never marry a Mexican”. This sentences not only destroy her confidence toward Mexican men, but also wreck her confidence toward marriage. Because the background of this sentences is her mother has an unfortunate marriage with her father. As Sandra Cisneros wrote in her short story , “In my ma’s house the plates were always stacked in the center of the table, the knives and forks and spoons standing in a jar.”(Page 70). Although her mother met the other man when her father was sick, I can draw an conclusion that her mother is a good woman in Mexican culture, because she was submissive to Clemencia’s father, such as sexually inactive, taking care of children and the home. However, even a Mexican good women as her mother, do not got the happiness at the end of her life. So encourage all the Mexican women to become a “Virgen de Guadalupe” is meaningless. Thirdly, although this woman makes love with Drew’s son, she still loves Drew. So her heart was consistently innocent. As the narrator said, she “can’t see a trace of my lover in this boy.” She try to find the shadows of Drew from Drew’s son, although she failed. Moreover, I want to analysis the role of Drew. In Mexican culture, male always stay in power, no matter in the society or in the family. However, this man, Drew, could not undertake his responsibilities. As a teacher, he make love with his student; as a husband, he has illegal love affair, he both failed in the society and family. In the article, narrator has the same question to herself, ”hadn’t I understood responsibilities?”. In my opinion, Drew even does not consider this question, because when the narrator confront Drew by coincidence, he could introduce the narrator to his wife without emotional fluctuation. So the Mexican men as Drew, have no rights to judge the women, and divided them into two group. Comments: The archetypes that you mention need to be explained and how do their stories relate to Clemencia’s. Also, the question is why and how the author of the short story creates this character: what is the social criticism behind it? Not if Clemencia is a good or bad woman only. And, did Clemencia’s mother pushed her into a relationship with Drew? I see you have a general idea, but it needs more work. I suggest you read Laura Paz’s article. HUMAN ARCHITECTURE: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE A Publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) HUMAN ARCHITECTURE ISSN: 1540-5699. © Copyright by Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press). All Rights Reserved. Journal of the Sociology of Self- “Nobody’s Mother and Nobody’s Wife” Reconstructing Archetypes and Sexuality in Sandra Cisneros’ “Never Marry a Mexican” Laura Paz University of Massachusetts Boston –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– laura.paz-rodrigu001@umb.edu Abstract: Female archetypes of both mythical and historical figures are central to Mexican culture in that they not only reflect this society’s ideals and history, but also serve to classify and socialize women. Traditional Mexican society is characterized by rigid gender roles in which women are expected to be faithful wives who are subservient to their husbands, as well as take care of the children and home. Men, on the other hand, can be promiscuous and enjoy sexual relations outside the marriage. For this reason,