An Analysis Of Victor Rodriguez's Short Story '

Victor is a boy who is continuously embarrassing himself in order to gain a girl's admiration. For example, in the story, Victor’s emotions over Teresa are growing bigger and bigger and have started to embarrass him even more. One example from the text that proves that Victor is embarrassing himself because he likes Teresa is, “Yes, now somebody give me an example of a person—you, Victor Rodriguez.” “Teresa,” Victor said automatically. Some of the girls giggled. They knew he had a crush on Teresa. He felt himself blushing again.” (para. 10) This quote means that Victor is thinking about Teresa which leads back to having a crush on her. Also, I can infer that the girls that were looking at Victor were giggling and going to tell Teresa. Furthermore,