The Latin Deli
I. An Examination of Characters
1. Select 5 stories and then create a character analysis on each main and favorite character
Dear Joaquin: In this letter, the depressive angst is almost surely palpable. Olga is hopelessly in love. It seems a man took her virginity, her purity, and left her in an anxious state of expectancy. A one night stand in which she gave her whole being to a fraud made her believe she knows what love is. She exhausts the word love saying “me, the woman who truly loves you” and “this is unbearable, mi amor”. Joaquin has completely forgotten the narrator for “ten months have passed and not a word” from him and that’s not to mention the fact that he’s living with another woman, two actually. Olga is blinded by love and although she writes that he “hides like a frightened child” behind his “mama’s big bottom, under Rosaura’s mambo skirts” she cannot accept the fact that he’s moved on. Olga could spend her entire life waiting on Jaoquin and signing letters “Amor y besos, Olga” to which she will never receive a reply.
Paterson Public Library: The character is so enthralled by her “pillared palace of the Paterson Public Library” and the greed for experiences of the adventures inside. She describes herself as rummaging through the stacks “like the beggar invited to the wedding feast,” starving for books. The narrator is so inviting and easy to connect with because she is a child and loves to read (which is ironic considering we are reading this book). She’s intrigued by a world of knowledge that it so incomprehensibly vast it’s hard to bear. The foil, Lorraine in this story further emphasized how much the narrator treasures knowledge.
Eva, the main character in By love Betrayed, is as innocent little girl who does not yet know she should be ashamed of her father and who still has an undying love for him despite her mother’s warnings that her father is a sinner. She says “When my mother got angry at my father, she made me think of a
1. Select 5 stories and then create a character analysis on each main and favorite character
Dear Joaquin: In this letter, the depressive angst is almost surely palpable. Olga is hopelessly in love. It seems a man took her virginity, her purity, and left her in an anxious state of expectancy. A one night stand in which she gave her whole being to a fraud made her believe she knows what love is. She exhausts the word love saying “me, the woman who truly loves you” and “this is unbearable, mi amor”. Joaquin has completely forgotten the narrator for “ten months have passed and not a word” from him and that’s not to mention the fact that he’s living with another woman, two actually. Olga is blinded by love and although she writes that he “hides like a frightened child” behind his “mama’s big bottom, under Rosaura’s mambo skirts” she cannot accept the fact that he’s moved on. Olga could spend her entire life waiting on Jaoquin and signing letters “Amor y besos, Olga” to which she will never receive a reply.
Paterson Public Library: The character is so enthralled by her “pillared palace of the Paterson Public Library” and the greed for experiences of the adventures inside. She describes herself as rummaging through the stacks “like the beggar invited to the wedding feast,” starving for books. The narrator is so inviting and easy to connect with because she is a child and loves to read (which is ironic considering we are reading this book). She’s intrigued by a world of knowledge that it so incomprehensibly vast it’s hard to bear. The foil, Lorraine in this story further emphasized how much the narrator treasures knowledge.
Eva, the main character in By love Betrayed, is as innocent little girl who does not yet know she should be ashamed of her father and who still has an undying love for him despite her mother’s warnings that her father is a sinner. She says “When my mother got angry at my father, she made me think of a