the two stories in the second half that really had an effect on me were "eyes of Zapata" and "bien pretty." Eyes of Zapata really showed the sadness and vulnerability of this woman who is longing for something that she cannot have which is kind of what Bien Pretty is about as well. I just found Eyes of Zapata to be some poetically written and written in a manner that is so vivid one can almost image being in her place. The way this woman describes Zapata as he sleeps has so much detail in it, and you can feel the devotion and her love towards this silent and misterious person who never fully appreciates her. Her description of how they met to her description of where they are now and how he is with other women shows us her emotions over time and filled me ( the reader) with sadness and how this love withers over time , but not because of her losing her feelings towards him, but because of who he is, the situation of mexico during this time, and all the hardships she went through, eventually becoming numb to it all. This story is filled with so much heartache and suffering because of love, that it makes one wonder whether the mistified zapata was all he was led up to be?? it definatley made me question and at times hate him and his motives while at the same time attracted to his character more and more, which is what i think, the woman is going through.
Bien pretty also talks about a woman losing her man. also a man that comes off as mysterious. I liked how it showed the ignorance of this americanized mexicana towards other mexicans. For example when she asked Flavio if he knew any indigenous dances. I think that after he left, and after agonizing for so long, she finally decided to start living her life how it was meant to be lived. Not watching herself live her days but actually living them. She seemed to have been really affected by this mexicano who whisked her off her feet and then disappeared, someone who she thought had the image of a god, not like those americanos she used to date. I found it interesting how she noted that she could never have sex in english again, because the way spanish flowed and all carinitos used.
Anyways all in all, this was an extroardinary book. I loved the way it was written in short stories and the amount of detail and poetism that Cisneros uses. Id love to know where her inspiration came from for each of these little stories.
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I liked Bien Pretty as well. I think that being a second-generation "foreigner" is probably a completely different experience than being an immigrant firsthand. And even in my own personal experience, it seems as if people really are discriminatory against those who aren't "in their culture"--even if the culture is just across the border.
Val, you and I always end up writing about similar topics! jaja.
Eyes of Zapata was also really emotional for me...everytime that she kept bringing up her experience under the avocado tree I just felt so bad for her! But in the end I think she knew that she was important to Zapata, even if he was unfaithful.
I loved this book, as you know.
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