Alfredo Perez was a Mexican man he spends his whole life in Mexico. He was a loving and obedient son and husband as well. Alfredo Perez spends years in different jobs such as truck driver, factory job and sometimes hammering nails but none of these was a permanent job. Alfredo Perez was alcoholic and had a lot of affairs but now what was important to him was his family. For self-identification, this story illustrates that men are closely related to insemination, financial things and moral authority and all these things are based on man’s relationship with a woman.
Mothering is called as a woman’s bearing and caring for her child as distinguishing social jerkers in Mexico. Whereas fathering in Mexican culture is a man to have to confirm his virility through fathering many children especially sons. In the Mexican culture, there is always greater significance for men than women regarding insemination.
In the Mexican culture blood, ties are different for different people as for the writer it was not much important. As Alfredo Perez was telling the story of his stepbrother who died fourteen years ago, they were not related by blood, but his mother grieves for him. She also sometimes cries when she thought about him. The writer’s friend argues that if instead of his brother the writer would have died his mother would grieve more because he was his real son. But for another person ignoring the blood ties is a point of pride.
One day Michelle talks about a trip with her friend with Angela and Norma. Angela asked the writer if she is worried about leaving him alone so long maybe he can use this opportunity for Aventuras means adventure in other words adultery. But Michelle was not concern about this because she trusted him again Angela said “well, sure but do you trust the women? Men cannot help themselves when a sexual opportunity presents itself.” It is true that man does not resist himself when sexuality is presented to him.
The cultural boundaries have overlapped between different geography because of the immigration and television. They have become more dominant than they were before. This has been proven in Mexico and the United States. The Mexican thinks about the American as a racist because of the sexual roles and machismo, illegal immigrants and racism are observed and judged by them. But not all of them think that there are some other shows and movies which portray batter picture of Mexican and they like them.
La casa chica means a small house that refers to the arrangement whereby a Mexican man keeps a woman other than his wife a residence that is separated from his main house. The man keeps this house for his mistress. I never heard this word before. He qualifies the conservative ideas about La casa chica very successfully by mentioning different stories and people who like to have a la casa chica.
Work cited
Gutmann, C. Matthew. Male Discretion and Sexual Indiscretion in ‘Working Class Mexico City, 191
