Reading:
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 152-201
Study Questions:
1. Yunior is both the primary narrator of the novel, acting in the guise of the Watcher, as well as a participant in the de Leon family drama. Yunior characterizes himself as a super macho, womanizing jock-type—and
yet in narrating the book, his writing is riddled with reference to
nerdy topics like the Fantastic Four and Lord of the Rings.
In other words, there seems to be a schism between Yunior the character
and Yunior the writer. Why do you think that is? What could Díaz be
trying to say by making Yunior’s character so seemingly contradictory?
Questions for today were adapted from the Penguin Readers' Guide
