erhaps because thestory dealt with Tepeyac, the colonia my fatherwas raised in and the house he grew up in, butat any rate, my father punched the mute buttonon his remote control and read my story
Sandra knew that writing something about his father life was going to catch his attention specially because her story was translated to Spanish he was able to read it carefully and understand everything.
In a sense, everything I have ever writtenhas been for him, to win his approval eventhough I know my father can’t read Englishwords, even though my father’s only readingincludes the brown-ink Esto sports magazinesfrom Mexico City and the bloody
Again, her father doesn't approve her because he thinks women should get married and be at home instead of working.
After four years in college and twomore in graduate school, and still nohusband, my father shakes his head evennow and says I wasted all that education
Her father has the idea that women should be the ones who stay at home and men are the ones who financially provide to the house that's why he thought that going to college for was going to be a good thing because she was going to meet his future husband at college which means he was going to have a degree in his life.
forthe reader’s sake I should have written: “I amthe only daughter in a Mexican family of sixsons.” Or even: “I am the only daughter of aMexican father and a Mexican-Americanmother.” Or: “I am the only daughter of aworking-class family of nine.” All of thesehad everything to do with who I am today
I think that's a very important highlight because it gives us some background of the way she has been raised. Growing up in a Mexican culture just make us understand that the environment that she was living in was machista.