Thursday, April 15, 2010

Surprise, I'm straight !!

Vazquez makes a very stylistic choice to wait to disclose the fact that the two men in the story are straight. Vazques makes the reader believe that the two men are gay, by saying they are in the Castro, and then going on to describe very stereotypically 'gay, 'thin and wiry, a great dancer clad in back denim, earrings dangling from his ear.' Vazquez almost seems to sneakily attack the reader, calling them out for inevitably assuming that the two men were gay. The choice to wait to disclose that information to the reader almost sends them on a guilt trip the assumption of the men being gay, the choice does in fact make the reader think about that fact that they have made an assumption, which does help Vazquez get her point across, that everyone can be affected by assumptions.

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