EDIT: Apologies once more on Option #4. I misremembered the way Oscar’s letter closes the novel–I thought much more of it was in his own voice. If you’re doing Option #4, focus on either Lola or Yunior, not Oscar.
Comment here for our third reading from Oscar Wao. This is the section in which you’ll meet our main narrator, Yunior, and watch engage in “Project Oscar,” to try to make the latter fitter and more successful with women. Answer this–what do you think of Yunior’s mission, in terms of his goals, methods, and attitudes? Positively? Negatively? Why?
Other contemporary American fiction writers (like Diaz):
Phillip Roth (novelist, major works Portnoy’s Complaint and American Pastoral)
Cormac McCarthy (novelist, major works Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, and No Country for Old Men)
Don DeLillo (novelist, major works Underworld and Libra)
Marilynne Robinson (fiction writer, major work Housekeeping)
Cynthia Ozick (fiction writer, major work “The Shawl”)
David Eggers (novelist and McSweeney’s editor, major work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
Jonathan Franzen (novelist, major work The Corrections)