Yunior In This Is How You Lose Her

In This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, the main character Yunior indicates he is bad guy by materializing and objectifying the women that are in his life. While Yunior has been with several women throughout the book he indicates how he only is with some women for their appearance. While Yunior is in a relationship with Flaca for two years, it shows how he does not want anything serious with her as he says that he never “claimed” (Diaz 84) Flaca. Yunior says, “You were whitetrash from outside of Paterson and it showed in your nonfashion-sense” (Diaz 84). Yunior expresses how he sees Flaca as of her appearance but does not seem to focus on her personality. While Yunior’s friends are trying to convince him on not being with Flaca he focuses
on the bad and the physical appearance. On the other hand, this was not the only time Yunior focuses more on a women’s appearance for the first time, it happens with Miss Lora as well. As Yunior’s brother has just passed, he starts a relationship with his neighbor Miss Lora. Yunior expresses how ‘Miss Lora wasn’t anything exciting” (Diaz 157). Just as Flaca, Miss Loras’s relationship is not being taken serious by Yunior. Additionally Yunior says, “Miss Lora was too skinny. Had no hips whatsoever. No breasts, either, no ass, even her hair failed to make the grade” (Diaz 157). Yunior seems to only care about Miss Lora’s appearance and not her personality. Yunior not taking any of his relationships serious of, gives off that he is materializing the women he is involved with. Yunior objectifies the appearance of a women whom he is with and not their personality. Yunior’s lack of interest in a women’s personality and lack of seriousness in his relationships make him a bad guy.