"The Tortilla Curtain"

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The paper analyzes the character of Delaney Mossbacher, a white, upper-middle-class, naturalist writer who becomes increasingly prejudiced and violent toward Mexicans in T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel, "The Tortilla Curtain."

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"Delaney Mossbacher is a nature writer whose life changes dramatically after he hits the car of Candido Rincon, an illegal Mexican immigrant. Mossbacher's character is significant to the story in a number of ways but Boyle uses his character primarily to demonstrate that nature will ultimately withstand no artificially constructed categories of race and ethnicity. Delaney Mossbacher is a white male living in the comfort of upper-middle-class Arroyo Blanco Estates."

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