Synopsis Of The Story 'Mrs. Perez' By Oscar Casares

In the story “Mrs. Perez” by Oscar Casares, he uses constant flashbacks, a custom bowling ball, a broken home, and a separated family as a way to shape a fictional story into a realistic lifestyle for the main character.

In the beginning of the story, the author includes “Her name was engraved in black cursive letters an inch above the finger holes: Lola.” (pt. 1, Casares) The author includes this in the first part of the story to give you the main characters first name through her personal, custom bowling ball. This gives the readers a sense of reality simply because he attaches the main characters ball to her personally. He implies with this sentence that she must love bowling to the point where she has customized her own bowling ball, instead of using one that is supplied at a

People throwing their money away. Parrandeando." (pt. 1, Casares) This flashback was the feedback from Mrs. Perez’s deceased husband’s thoughts on bowling, every time they passed the bowling alley. To Agustin Perez bowling to him was a waste of money and time. The readers can conclude that Mr. Perez was probably a man with little entertainment, and also a man with little interest in losing money. Later on in the story, Casares adds dialogue between the Perez’s talking about Lola’s job, where Mr. Perez in response tells her, "Yes, you can. You just tell them tomorrow morning that you're not going to touch any more bottles with meados. If they don't like it, tell them I said to call your husband. I'll explain it to them real clear." Just by looking at this piece of dialogue between them, the readers can already create a persona for Mr. Perez as a man of control. Agustin tells Lola to quit her job because he doesn’t want her to carry around bottles of another man’s urine. Even though Lola loves her job, she quits anyway, obeying her