Question #3

In this story there is a wanting and a calling for the American Dream. To be able to get higher in social status, to own a home, to make a good honest living, to be well American. Our narrator is a girl who is stuck between cultures. On  one hand she wants to maintain her Spanish culture but her family is telling her to embrace the American culture. Her family believes that if she forgets about the Spanish in her that she will be better of in the long run. One reason being is that she is so light skin that she can easily be mistaken for being white. They think that she will live a easier life and achieve more is she takes on American culture, there is a idea by her family that with being Spanish comes lower class and if she is in a lower class then she will not be able to live up to her full potential and achieve the American Dream.