Marry a Mexican, " highlighting underlining things essay. We talked patterns follow class: animal images, food images, religious images, discussion race color.

Point: The narrator Clemencia has been scarred by her previous relationships with men and the image of men given to her by her mother.

Evidence: Clemencia says: "I'll never marry…Mexican men, forget it…For a long time the men clearing off the tables or chopping meat behind the butcher counter or driving the bus I road to school today, those weren't men. Not men I considered potential lovers. ..I never saw them…my mother did this to me" (Cisneros 69).

Explanation: Clemencia's feelings about Mexican men, although she is Mexican herself, have their roots in both class-based and personal prejudice -- American society relegates Mexicans to largely subservient positions but she has also witnessed the gender-based prejudices within Mexican culture directed at her mother.

Point: There are invisible class differences...
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