The Role of Men in Junot Diaz Writing

Junot Díaz is a fiction writer born in Santo Domingo who has won several prizes like the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a feminist that talks about the male stereotype, so what he tells us lectors is that all males have the same way of thinking over woman. After reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz as lectors we can easily see how Tio Rodolfo says that you have to take the first girl that you see even if she is ugly and have sex with her. For example “You have to grab a muchacha, broder y meteselo. That will take care of everything. Start with a fea. Coge that fea y meteselo” (Diaz 2). Junot Diaz here describes men as they all think they’re superior than women. Men are also represented with infidelity in his stories. “One day after school, Maritza cornered Oscar behind the swing set and laid down the law. It’s either her or me!” (Diaz 1) This is another way of Diaz proving that men have a lying role in relationships. In the other story Alma at the beginning of the story we can clearly see how she is viewed by her boyfriend as an object. “Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that seems to exist in a fourth dimension beyond jeans” (Diaz 1).

Finally, Diaz gives the macho a lying and sexual role. Which can be seen by Tio Rodolfo. Diaz also tells us that not all men are bastards, that there still some romantic man like Oscar. He is the opposite of what typical men are, because he respected Yvon and by the fact we can see that not all men are like Diaz tells us.