I. Overview
 Junot Diaz offers several important themes in the last vignettes of Drown.  The exploration of Yunior’s job as a pool table deliveryman shows the difference of economic situations between him and most of his customers.  As a consequence, Diaz shows how Yunior takes revenge on wealthier people by stealing or destroying some their property or belongings.  Also, Diaz’s narrator uses stereotypes, based on a male perspective, to show how to treat certain kinds of women.  Women are stereotyped to satisfy certain needs of an immature teen such as Yunior.  In addition, we are taken into a deep journey discovering the lifestyle the father takes when he first comes to the United States and the types of struggles he faces along with the guilt of leaving a family behind in the Dominican Republic.

II. Analysis
 Everyone has dreams at some point in their life, that may not necessarily include the most loved ones in life, but the feeling of these dreams becoming true can be the motivation to change or take risks to do better things in life.  Many immigrants come to this country with true dreams of fortune and a better life.  The last thing they expect is poverty and struggles while living in the Unites States.  Ramon de Las Casas Sr. depicts a good example on the mentality that is brought by many immigrants. For example, “he didn’t dream of his familia..Instead, he dreamed of gold coins, like the ones that had been salvaged from the many wrecks about our island” (169).

 Being in a foreign country, not knowing the language and with little clothes, Ramon Sr, improvises and does his best with what he has.  This persistence of looking good helps him find a woman to provide the necessary papers to become a US citizen, and therefore have more opportunities in this country.  For example, “dressed as he was, trim and serious, Papi looked foreign but not mojado” (171).  The main focus for Ramon was to find a woman to marry so he could get his citizenship and broaden his doors of opportunities.  Eventually, he does find one, Nilda, and goes ahead and lives with her for several years, not giving any effort in taking care of his family back in the Dominican Republic.  His guilt and remorse for his family, does not allow him to live comfortably, and begins to feel the guilt override him.  This in turn, causes him to move out of Nilda’s life and save enough money to bring his family from the Dominican Republic to the United States.

 Apparently, Ramon Sr. realizes his first wife and family in the Dominican Republic are important.  But what causes somewhat of a controversy is the true reason that Ramon Sr. decides to bring his family.  Nilda is not an easy woman to catch at the beginning and she is successful as a single mother and business owner.  It seems that he wants to feel in control of his life, his woman, his family.  Nilda is an independent restaurant owner, who pays for most of the bills, and does not fit the traditional role of the female in latino culture, therefore, Ramon may feel threatened of this and therefore, decides to bring his first wife, to be able to feel like a man in control of the woman.  Since his first wife accepts his unfaithful behavior as normal, it is more convenient for him to bring her over to the US rather than fight with Nilda who is outspoken and sure of what she has and wants.

III. Questions:
1. Why do you think the wife of Ramon in the Dominican Republic, accepts the offer to go to the United States even though she knew that he was unfaithful?
2. How does Diaz represent transmigration and its impact on the family?