Summary of the Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio

The lovers are in love with themselves being in love. They love each other, but are more preoccupied with being seen as lovers. They often feign mild hatred. She is extremely aware of being watched and plays with the audience for sympathy in their plight and ccasionally flirts with spectators.

Hispanic American community are rooted from their origins in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Spanish speaking countries that have come together and form a culture in the United State of America. The culture is built in different categories; for instance, religion, social custom, health practices their privacy, and birth. They come from a comprehensive familiar culture that has been called the second in America. Because of their pride and affection they feel unsafe to give up their past. Their notoriety in the United State has been their resistance to assimilate; their guarded image of Hispanic-American culture has been the tongue of flame. However, their remarkable legacy, Hispanics carry from Latin America is not their language, an

a story that reflects the subordination of woman in marriage. By the time of the early

She is realizing that she will have freedom through her husband death and whispers over and over, “free, free, free!” Her unhappiness is not with her husband, it is her rankings in society and becoming a widow is her only chance she has to gain the power, money, respect, and most of all freedom.

And when «she knows it's happening: that thing, that connection» between them, when she dances for him and «making him fall in love with her» she says to him: «We've got all we need. We don't need love. Don't diminish yourself – don't reveal yourself as a sentimental sap. You're dying to do it, but don't. Let's not lose this.» (p. 231). She knows she's driving him nuts, she knows that her rejection of his feelings makes him want to attach to her sentimentaly even more. She dances for him and teaches him what life really is. She – a 34-year-old illiterate janitor, teaches him – colledge proffessor, ex-dean, a member of highest rank of society class, what life is all about.

However the mother’s point of view was contrasting from the daughter it was tradition for the daughter to be a wife and to live with the husband, but because they had to leave her life at an early stage of her life she felt upset to see her grow with her husband without her. Afterwards years had past and the she found a way to keep her promise and end the marriage in the end.

She has such blind trust in her lover that nothing will come between them. In the end they ride off into the sunset on white horses which add to the fantastical elements because it is an example of over-the-top romanticism.

The third stanza goes on to describe her continued success and accomplishments as time passes on. "She hung up her diploma, went abroad" as line 9 states, describes her graduation and the continuance of her education. She goes to a more refined, prestigious school abroad. This is symbolic to how much opportunity she has that has set her apart from others. She in fact continues her education as at that time most women probably did not. Lines ten through twelve, "Saw catalogues of domes and tapestry... learned to tell real Wedgwood from a fraud" depicts her extensive knowledge of all topics. She is exposed to lavish thing often such as tapestries and is so familiar with Wedgwood that it is practically of second nature to her. She returns back to her home and weds a man who is on par with her level. We can see that he also is successful and comes from an affluent background as Kay writes in line fourteen "A bright young man whose pearl cufflinks were real." We then learn about their ideal lifestyle they share together- an ideal marriage, an ideal house. But we learn that their children infact do not live an "ideal" life. Infact, they are "lonely children." Although this woman has many luxuries to keep her mind off her inner void,

The word sadness immediately stands out in the title indicating opposite feelings normally associated with wedding dresses. To continue, the words “sad story” are repeated in lines 27 and 28 (Galvin). Galvin also repeats the word closet in line 4, 11, 14, 20, and 29; alone and forgotten in the darkness of a closet emphasizes the unique perspective of abandonment as opposed to a treasured item. From there, Galvin repetitively makes additional word choices that emphasize the sad, lonely, and abandoned feelings used wedding dresses experience. Galvin makes word choices such as starless, hopeless, darkness, hollow, dump, gone, and disappear. These words all connotate a dark, lonely, and abandoned feeling. Moreover, Galvin incorporates the words yellow, smoke, and flames. Packed away wedding dresses turn an ugly yellow while the lucky wedding dresses go up in smoke and flames; neither scenario are connected to the traditional view of a keepsake. To further the unique tone Galvin associates with wedding dresses, he integrates words such as weeping, longing, and waiting. The connotation of Galvin’s word choices elicit a deep yearning for a better outcome that will unfortunately never come for his abandoned wedding

In the novel The Member Of The Wedding is about how the family has to go through difficult faces.

The relationship between a father and his son is an essential and unique one, creating both memories and chances for many life lessons., it is quite common for a son to follow in his father’s footsteps. In the poem, “a story” by Li-Young lee, the poet uses point of view, structure, as well as diction to display the complexity of the relationship between a father and his son caused by the maturing of the son and the father’s fear of losing his son.

One can see the flow of Tita’s emotions into her cooking when she prepares the food for the two main weddings that occur in the story. The first wedding was Rosaura’s and the other wedding was Esperanza’s. At Rosaura’s Wedding, Tita was very sad and crushed because Rosaura was marrying the love of her life, Pedro. “And so arms around each other, Nacha and Tita wept until there were no more tears in Tita’s eyes (pg.30).” As Tita prepares the batter for the wedding cake her tears fall into the mix, so Nacha tells Tita to take a break and cry until she has no more tears. When the wedding guests ate the cake, they all suddenly become sad and ill. “The moment they took their first bite of the cake, everyone was flooded with a great wave of lodging (pg.39).” Nobody including the newlyweds got to enjoy the wedding as they had hoped for, since they were all “vomiting and wailing over lost love (pg.39).” The only person

“Later that night when Thomas roller over and lurched into her, she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers” this proves the point that she cannot even express herself sexually because she does not feel as if she has control in the situation.  Her mind wanders elsewhere, in a place where she is her own master, instead of what is reality. Additionally, the main character’s husband shows some selfish tendencies in the fact that he may not notice his wife’s discontentment with his affection.  However, this may also present the lack of communication between man and wife and therefore may cause a sense of isolation from her husband.

From the short story “Woman Hollering Creek,” the narrator emphasizes “Cleofilas thought her life would have to be like that, like a telenovela, only now the episodes got sadder and sadder…. And no happy in sight” (53). The narrator is trying to say that Cleofilas compares her life from the telenovelas that she watches. The only difference is Cleofilas’ life has more sad parts and her husband do not love him. Juan Pedro would say that he loves Cleofilas, but if he truly loves Cleofilas he would not hurt her. The narrator of “One Holy Night” said “Abuelita took me out of school when my uniform got tight around my belly and said it was shame I wouldn’t be able to graduate with the other eighth graders” (33). This means that this 8th grader girl got pregnant from Boy Baby who left her after what happened to them. This clearly indicates that Boy Baby did not love her, he just used her and her body. If he really loves her, he would not let her suffer alone and he would not run from his

In both pieces she wishes to be detached from love and responsibility, yet as the poem progresses, she has a change of heart, almost an epiphany.