Blog Post 19: The Anatomy of it all!

The way short story, 'Miss Lora', is set up differently from how the other short stories in the past have been set up in. I do not understand why Junot Díaz decided to divide it up in smaller sections even though the story is already small enough. Each time a part is divided up into a chapter and enters into a new one, it changes up the way the story was going. In the beginning, the first chapter ended with saying, "You'd fuck anything, someone jeered. And he had given that someone the eye. You make that sound like it's a bad thing" (Yunior pg.153) Right after, the second chapter starts off with, "Your brother. Dead now a year and sometimes you still feel a fulgurating sadness over it even though he really was a super asshole at the end." (Yunior pg.153) The way it ends, compared to the way that it starts off to a new chapter, changes the way in how the reader was reading it. For me, it has a different tone. I believe there is a different tone because when I am done reading one chapter, I feel some type of way towards it. Then, when I start reading the next one, I feel differently about how the reading is given to me. A common thread amongst all the short stories would be the men always cheating on their women. Throughout the short stories, women are kept being cheated on which basically is presented as "machismo".