Analysis Of A Cheaters Guide To Love By Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz, the author of â€Å"A Cheaters Guide to Love† writes his short story with many different references to anti-feminism. He writes about women in different ways to show them as powerless, and un-superior to the main character in the short story. From this short story, Diaz conveys the main characters ways when he shows the him talking about, the girl he calls to have sex with, the women at the yoga class, and the files read at the end of the story that show the fifty girls he cheated on his fiancà © with. Diaz creates his main character and puts him in the second person to relate to the reader, but show his anti-feministic signs. In the short story, the main character, Yunior starts by explaining that he had cheated on his fiancà ©. But†¦show more content†¦Further examples of Diaz explaining how Yunior shows his Anti-feministic signs, is when he signs up for the yoga class. The first thing Yunior says about the class is, â€Å"Elvis was certainly right. There are mad hos, all with their asses in the air† (Diaz year two). This sentence in the story can bring up controversy, of the way Diaz Writes, and the way he portrays his characters to talk. In the peer edited review article, â€Å"Feminism and Anti-Feminism† by Clyde Wilcox, the author explains that, â€Å"the smallest group (17 percent) was composed of anti-feminists who were generally moderate to liberal on other issues. We might refer to this group as Liberal Anti-Feminists. This group was the least likely to be employed, to report a family income of over $30,000, or to have attended some college† (Wilcox 156). Although Y unior was a professor at a college, he stated earlier in the short story that he had moved apartments a few times, and eaten out a lot because of his financial status. This shows that when stress was added to Yunior, he would go out and look for people to hook up with and be intimate with to take his mind off of what was happening in the world around him. This could have also been another reason he cheated on his fiancà © because the stress she carried with her and their financial status together, caused him to have uncontrollable emotions. Either way, proving he was against respecting women and what they did