The Cheater s Guide For Love By Junot Diaz - 895 Words

In â€Å"The Cheater’s Guide to Love†, Junot Dà ­az presents a story about love that goes sour after the primary character, Yunior’s infidelity is discovered. But beyond just an emotionally bleak story, Dà ­az also uses the background of a love story gone bad to explore issues of race through Yunior’s narrative style, second-person point of view, and the characterization of the various women Yunior meets. One of Dà ­az’s greatest gifts in storytelling is the intimacy of his voice through the use of second-person point of view. Throughout the entire story, the reader is placed in the position of Yunior. â€Å"You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.† (p. 2) But even though second-person point of view is usually used to include readers of all types and all races, in this story, it is clear that the â€Å"you† that Dà ­az uses does not encompass all readers. This is apparent as soon as page two of the story when Yunior (Dà ­az) writes, â€Å"For some Negroes that wouldn’t mean shit. But you ain’t that kind of Negro.† Through this sentence, it is clear that the â€Å"you† refers to a person of color. Yunior is openly angry and while most of his ire is directed at the women in his life and his failing body, as he gets more and more depressed, some of it starts to get directed at white people as well. White people scream at him at traffic lights, white kids throw soda cans at him, drunk white guys try to pick fights with him, and even though he’s a tenured professor, he is unable to stepShow MoreRelatedThe Cheater s Guide For Love By Junot Diaz997 Words   |  4 Pagesthen you should read, The Cheater’s Guide to Love, by Junot Diaz. In his story, The Cheater’s Guide to Love, Diaz covers the journey of Yunior of finding and losing love and the ups and downs along the way. This journey is chronicled by year, starting at year â€Å"0† t he breakup and ending in year â€Å"5† where he starts to write his story. Throughout the story Yunior is faced with internal and external conflicts, including his downfall and rise towards the end. Diaz also covers the effect of these conflicts