Paragraph Answering Question #2

In the story “Fiesta, 1980” the vomiting of the main character, Yunior, represents the idea that Yunior can not hold the secret of the family anymore. One of the literary devices that we can see in the story that shows the relationship between the father and the son is symbolism. One of the portions of the text where we can see this says “every time I was in that VW and Papi went above twenty miles an hour, I vomited. I’d never had trouble with cars before—that van was like my curse” (Diaz 27). The action of vomiting is a symbol for the secret that the narrator holds. The narrator feels sick only when he is in the van with his father because the narrator holds the secret about the relationship between the father and the waitress. This symbol means that it is very difficult for the narrator to keep the secret, and it makes him sick to know this about the father and not being able to tell the mother what is really happening.