The character Yunior, being the narrator of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is all in good reason being he is the standing of true Dominican male. Yunior emulates the Dominican American stereotypes of masculinity. Stereotyped that a man must be dominate, powerful, and with a attractive physic, Dominicans are expected to come with a violent nature and through physical violence and verbal aggression, act on an increased sexual drive without that masculine persona and things Oscars has a hard time crossing into those steps of manhood. From jump, it seems like Oscar in relation to the title isn’t the outsider and portrayed to enhance an image of the narrator in the mind of the reader. Then through a break down argument it became clear …show more content…
By molding him to be as non-masculine and uncultured as possible, all while being able to maintain his obvious reasons of maleness. This is making it so that Oscar cannot seem to get ahead in any culturally respected ways. Whether through sexual part of manhood or the progression of general …show more content…
He got through things. He really hated who made him and what came with them. His parents were loud and abusive so they made themselves and him an easy target, but Haung became just like them as far as a career and end result. The things that piece huang and Oscar together are huang went through an inner depression. He dealt with things by calling them fucked up as life is, calling it for what is. Huang shaped his characters as well, although it wasn’t as subtle as Oscar’s role nor did it have the same purpose or outcome. With Oscar just like everyone else his life was started in such a way that situations created his being and problems. This seems to be the situation for Oscar, whom with no father or father-like figure in his life. With the exception of his drug abusing, alcoholic uncle, Oscar was just never, taught the importance of masculine traits. Or had the opportunity to see them on the daily basis. Oscar’s way of dealing with things and calling them as it is was being called “fuku”. Which is the “dark cloud” of bad luck hanging over him and his family. To Haung it is just life back at it again with the