What I got instead was esto, she said, opening her arms to encompass the hospital, her children, her cancer, America.” Narrator, p. Or as she broke it down to Lola in her Last Days: All I wanted was to dance. “There it was, the Decision that Changed Everything. This feeling correlates with the theme of being an outsider/immigrant who does not feel she belongs anywhere. Malaise means an uneasiness or discomfort whose exact cause is hard to identify no matter where each woman is, she feels this discomfort, and neither character understands why she longs for other places. Describing the malaise as “Jersey” universalizes it, presuming that Lola and Belicia are not the only ones in New Jersey who feel this way. The narrator describes this feeling as being “particularly Jersey” in reference to the state of New Jersey, where Belicia and Lola spend most of their lives. 77īoth Belicia and Lola desire escape-but that desire is “inextinguishable.” So even when they are able to escape (as both of them are on a few occasions), they are still not satisfied.
“, like her yet to be born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise-the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.” Narrator, p. Oscar is starkly aware of how the supernatural events that occur in his favorite books (and comic books) are eerily similar to the historical and current events that have happened in the Dominican Republic and in his family’s history. Díaz parallels Dominican history with a variety of science fiction and fantasy texts. The quote hints at the fact sci-fi and fantasy references abound in the novel. Science fiction and fantasy become reality in the novel, and Oscar’s love for genre fiction stems from this awareness.
But in the end you do.“What more sci-fi than Santo Domingo? What more fantasy than the Antilles?” The narrator quoting Oscar, p. You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared. You claim that you were sick, you claim that you were weak-It was the book! It was the pressure!-and every hour like clockwork you say that you’re so so sorry. You start taking salsa classes like you always swore you would so that the two of you could dance together. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. You claim you’re a sex addict and start attending meetings. You compose a mass e-mail disowning all your sucias. “You try every trick in the book to keep her.
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