Patria By Julia Alvarez Summary
Julia Alvarez uses the interaction between Peña and Patria to demonstrate that a childish individual cannot be in control when facing a mature individual who offers difficult circumstances. When Patria is conversing with Captain Peña in his office, Patria writes:
But now, he was the one growing nervous. Absently, his hands fiddled with a plastic card on his key ring. It was a prism picture of a well-stacked brunette. When you tilted it a certain way, her clothes dropped away...
The devil I was so used to disappeared, and for a moment, like his titling prism, I saw an overgrown fat boy, ashamed of himself for kicking the cat and pulling the wings off the butterflies. (216-217)
The word growing is significant because it represents the stubbornness
But now, he was the one growing nervous. Absently, his hands fiddled with a plastic card on his key ring. It was a prism picture of a well-stacked brunette. When you tilted it a certain way, her clothes dropped away...
The devil I was so used to disappeared, and for a moment, like his titling prism, I saw an overgrown fat boy, ashamed of himself for kicking the cat and pulling the wings off the butterflies. (216-217)
The word growing is significant because it represents the stubbornness