Blog Post 16: Who Run the World...GIRLS!

In the novel 'This Is How You Lose Her', Magda, Nilda, Alma, and Yasmin all have something in common, they all let men treat them in a bad way. Men use them as if they were toys. These girls do not really get appreciated by their man. But what is different about all of these characters, is that they all handle their situations differently. They all have different ideas of what love is. A similarity also is that once they find out that their man did them dirty with another girl, that is when they all react. For example Magda and Alma. When Magda got cheated on by Yunior, she sorta started to manipulate him and basically had him on a leash. Alma on the other hand, when she found Yunior's journal, she patiently waited for him and then threw a whole lot of trash talk to him and then left him, "A cocksucker, a punk motherfucker, a fake-ass Dominican. She claims: You have a little penis, no penis, and worst of all that you like curried pussy." (Alma pg.50) But what was weird was Yunior's reaction to Alma, "Baby, you say, baby, this is all part of my novel. This is how you lose her" (Junior pg.50) LIKE WTF IS HIS PROBLEM!? His girl just left him and he's just chilling? The short story 'Otravida, Otravez', is narrated by Yasmin. The way she narrates her view of being with someone is way different from Junior. She sounds very mature about her relationship but Junior on the other hand is just playing with girls when he is narrating a story. Yasmin talks passionatley about sex while Yunior is dirty minded about it. Ramon most likely did't know what to do when she gave him the letter since he's already with someone else.