How Does Oscar's Character Change Throughout The Novel

Although people sometimes want a person to change, meaning want them to change their identity or whom they are. Everyone should just accept themselves and be happy and comfortable with who they are. In the beginning of the book Oscar talks in his perspective, then it switches to Lola’s and lastly to Yunior’s, they each mention the conflicts that they have to confront. Oscar faces many conflicts like his lack of ways with girls which don’t get any, his depression and how he is fat and cannot have sex like Yunior. In Junot Diaz’s renowned novel, the Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, many characters try to teach and advise the main character, Oscar, of many topics. For instance, Yunior tries to teach him how to lose weight, attract women and

Yunior is the character that mostly encouraged Oscar to lose weight and told him what to stop doing in the streets. In chapter four, Yunior talks in his perspective and says, ‘I tried to give him advice, I really did. Nothing too complicated like stop hollering at girls on the streets’ he still did not listen. The reason Yunior insisted and forced Oscar to stop his habits were because Oscar always cried to Yunior about how bad he wanted to find a girlfriend and how he wanted to change his lifestyle. Yunior then and there was determined to change Oscar’s life. Yunior woke up Oscar every day at 5 AM to go running in the mornings. He did it for a few days, then “Dude was not into it at all. As soon as we were through he’d be back at his desk in no time flat. Almost clinging to it. Tried everything he could to weasel out of our rooms. He would beg Yunior that he could not do it anymore, but Yunior knew it was not easy for him, but, he was tired of Oscar always complaining about himself so Oscar kept running for a few weeks, then he and Yunior got into a bad discussion, and Lola called later. Yunior ended up messing things up with

He taught history and English, most of his students made fun of him because he was not great at teaching and laughed when they saw him in the hallways. His life was hell in that school, he only had one friend named Nataly then she moved away. Later, he starts having these fantasies about Nataly, he does not tell anybody about them. He goes and live with his mom, he has a talk with her. He started a diet and took long walks around the neighborhood, “The nigger stuck with it and lost close to twenty pounds!” (Diaz 271). Oscar from that point on started feeling better about everything, nothing seemed to bother him, not his students, rejection letters, his loneliness. He started going to Santo Domingo and having fun, Lola was shocked because she said he would never go there frequently. His life started getting better when he continued these exercise