"Dreaming in Cuban"

Book Review # 115791

Literature > American

"Dreaming in Cuban"

A contrast of the two main characters in "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina Garcia.

1,320 words () | 0 sources | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the tensions between Lourdes and Pilar, the mother and daughter in "Dreaming in Cuban". The paper analyzes how both characters relate to Cuba as individuals and then identifies the personal qualities that enable Lourdes to assimilate so quickly when she moves to Brooklyn.

Outline:
The Tensions Within and Between Each
How They Relate to Cuba as Individuals
The Personal Qualities that Enable Lourdes to Assimilate so Quickly When She Moves to Brooklyn

From the Paper:

"In America, she is very strong in her beliefs about capitalism and how people should live, and even the values others should have, especially those around her. This comes into conflict with her daughter Pilar, who has no memory of Cuba, yet as an individual clearly feels the need to rebel and find her own way in the world, against the iron will of her mother. She finds her mother to be very invasive, and imposing of values and world view. To Pilar, the Cuba she has never seen is a dream that is pure and beautiful, and she hopes to see it one day. The implication of the story is that the idyllic memory of her homeland has been robbed very violently and traumatically from Lourdes, as her childhood, and her innocence, was taken away by political events in Cuba such as the revolution that sent her family into exile and brought them to America."