Summary Of Machismo By Junot Diaz

I chose this topic because the book centers around this idea of cheating to carry on the tradition of machismo. I chose this because I enjoy learning about machismo and how it plays a big part in Latino culture. I want to investigate machismo and its role in Latino culture. Specifically how Junot Diaz portrays machismo in the book, and how it is used in the book to portray the Latino culture. Machismo, also known as Latino maleness is “a strong sense of masculine pride; and an exaggerated masculinity” and involves a culture that has “rigid gender roles”. The practice of machismo is a tradition, such that it isn't just accepted it's expected. In machismo, “men are expected to be dominant and independent and females to be submissive and