Analysis Of Judith Ortiz Cofer's First Love '

In Judith Ortiz Cofer's “First Love”, the speaker is opportunistic and infatuated. The narrator is opportunistic because she did not let a sense of morality stop her from taking advantage of whatever opportunity she had to get what she wants. Simply because the narrator wanted a mere glimpse of her crush who worked at a grocery store, she hoped her mother “[smoking] with so little enthusiasm”(Cofer 1) did not mean that she'd have to stop going to the store to pick up cigarettes. The narrator did not have the morality to think that to quit smoking cigarettes may be good for her mother's health. Rather, she wanted her to continue “[smoking] them fast” just to go to the grocery store more often(1). The speaker even called that moment of her life