Christine Granados The Bride

Most girls dream of getting married in a beautiful white dress with the perfect guy. This dream is made clear in Christine Granados’s story “The Bride”. In this story, Lily, the narrator, describes how her sister Rochelle wants to have a white wedding, yet Rochelle’s dream does not go as planned. Since a little kid, Rochelle has dressed like a bride every year. As she gets older, she talks about how her marriage will be successful and elegant with her beautiful dress and her white guy dressed in tuxedo. She is very picky about boyfriends, clothes, and everything that deals with her wedding. However, she ends up marrying a Mexican guy named Angel. As time passes, Rochelle learns that she does not have to experience all she wants to be pleased.

Since a little girl, she thinks her bride outfit is important “she spent hours in the bathroom…only to cover her head with a white tulle veil” (Granados 3). As she gets older, she becomes extremely picky and arrogant. She begins to boast about her future wedding as she says it “is going to be a bland affair, outside in a tent, like the weddings up North in the “elegance of autumn” (Granados 4). She wants everything to be like a white wedding; she wants a money tree not a dollar dance. Rochelle did not even have a boyfriend, and she was already talking about her marriage and how everything was going to be. She is very obsessed with her wedding that “she even painstakingly chose what her dress would look like, down to the last sequin” (Granados 5). In addition, she makes lists of the boys who are most likely to be her groom. This means she is not ready to have a boyfriend because we do not choose who we fall in love

She feels that everything she says before getting pregnant is immature because she did not care about her dress as much as she does before and “it didn’t bother Rochelle that after Angel kisses her, he looked at his watch and said, “Vámonos. I need to get back to work,” because he needed to get back to Sears” (Granados 8). That is one of the most impressive parts of the story because she does not have a wedding party for her dollar tree and other things she talked about. I was really shocked when I read that part because I expected her to at least complain about that but she did not. She absolutely became a better person who knows what is good and that nothing is more important than to marry your true love. She is a dynamic character because she goes from being strict about her wedding to not complaining when she marries without the things and man she really desired in her childhood. Everybody expected her to do everything she said, and that is why people should not say something they will not do. The author effectively created a dynamic character that shifted from boasting too much to not complaining at all about her unanticipated