Brief Wondrous Life
Where The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao begins with an excerpt from a poem by Derek Walcott, it ends on the lines spoke by Oscar, “So this is what everybody’s always talking about! Diablo! If only I’d known. The beauty! The beauty!” (355). After all of the struggle and pain the novel contains, it closes on an affirming note that beauty can be found, even in the most disheartening circumstances. Over the course of the novel, the characters undergo a great deal of pain, often as the result of their conflicting ideologies. Often times, the characters within the novel struggle to find themselves within a world that necessitates categorization. Throughout the novel, readers experience the pain that the members of the Leon-Cabral family endure