Yunior and Oscar

          Oscar and Yuniors characters are polar opposites.  Yunior, the narrator of the book, is the quintessential Dominican male, el machismo. He sleeps around with many girls even when he was in a relationship with Oscars sister Lola. "At college you're not suppose about-you're supposed to fuck around" (pg 68). Throughout the book we see that Yunior was not a good person. We also see that Oscars death effects him and makes him change his ways, even if it was ten years later. By the end of the book he is a creative writing teacher and has a wife he thinks he does not deserve.

          Oscar, on the other hand, is the the total opposite. He likes writing stories and role playing. He falls in love with any girl that is nice to him, but always does something weird that pushes them away. He doesn't speak the way Yunior does, "geek" speak as Yunior would call it. He is prone to depression, because he fears that he is going to die a virgin. We see that Oscar dying pushed Yunior to a better path, making him clean up his act. "Took ten years to the day, went through more losy shit than you could imagine... Until finally I woke up next to somebody I didn't give two shits about, my upper lip covered in coke-snot and coke blood and I said OK, Wao, OK. You win."(pg 325)