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“How To Date A Brown Girl” is a short story that is narrated as a guide on how to date a girl based on their race or social class. We get introduced to the narrator at the beginning of the story as “you”.
The narrator is a second-person narrator, but it also plays a big role in the whole short story and it’s not very common to use a second-person narrator.
It can be interpreted as a guidebook that the narrator has made for himself on what to do in different situations with different girls that have a specific race or social class, or it is maybe made for other teenage boys.
The narrator is a Hispanic teenager that guides us throughout the whole story. He talks about how his mother still remembered the smell of tear gas from when the United States invaded their island, that is the Dominican Republic.
The narrator oozes out with insecurity and self-consciousness throughout the story, for example when he hides various belongings that shows the poverty that he lives in and the background that he comes from.
“Tell her that you love her hair, her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than your own” (p. 3, line 11-13).
He knows that his appearance doesn’t fit in to the “perfect” category.
The quote expresses an insecurity that isn’t directly described. If we read between the lines, we can construe this as an indication toward his own appearance. His own skin color. The feeling the reader experience is that it feels like the narrator has everything under control.
He knows what to do with different kind of girls that he is going to court and what not to do to get to his goal. Because the only thing he wants from the girls, in the end, is the sexual pleasure.
So that’s why he tries to hide all the necessary things that would give away his poverty and he starts with the government cheese.
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