How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez

There are several reasons why men and women walk around in the typical patriarcal world, society plays a major role. Women feel the need to conform to such sextist ways not because they genuinly feel as though they are less than, but because the ideas that the civilization holds makes it seem like being matriarcal is deficient. This is proven through the characters in both This is How You Lose her a fiction novel written by Junot Diaz and How The garcia Girls Lost Their Accents a fiction novel written by Julia Alvarez. In both books men complying with sexit stards are very much so present along with consequences that women face due to this ideology.

There are several ways in which sexism is portrayed in This is How You Lose her, but one way

When Ramon has an argument with his girlfriend,the narrator, about the dream that she has about owning a house he says “‘I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go’”(Diaz.74). What this examplifes is that men think that if a woman wants to pursue her dream and is very anxious about getting it accomplished then that makes them attached. The narrator wants to own a house and Ramon changed his mind about what he wanted and told her to forget about the whole thing which frustras her because she has plan and goals that she wants to achieve. She expresses how she feels about wanting to achieve such goals and because she feels this way she is seen as overly attached or emotional because of it. Society tells people that if a woman has strong feelings about something it is because she is infatuated with something, but when a man is concerned about their goals it is the, being ambitious and taking a risk which gives a negative connotation for women to be concerned, but a positive connotation for

In the story the uncle, Victor, is very old school. Victor has very old school Dominican views which are that women are inferior to men and that men are generally more important than women are. He talks about women a lot in the novel and explain ‘their roles’ when he says “These Latin women, even when the bullets are flying and the bombs are falling, they want to make sure you have a full stomach, your shirt is ironed, your handkerchief is fresh. It's what makes the nice girls from polite society great hostesses, and the girls at Tatica's such obliging lovers”(Alvarez. 51).With this it is clear to see how sexist Tio Victor’s views are, he thinks that throughout all the hardships that women face they are sure to make men their number one priority. You can also see that their is intersexunality in this becuase he specifically refering to women who are hispanic, This shows that in the Dominican culture it is fairly normal for a woman to act more inferior to a man and to willing accept it. This expectation will affect a lot of people because if this ideology becomes more common than it is going to be expected that every female to wait hand and foot on her significant other and seeing them as dominant and feeling as though they do not have rights for