The House on Mango Street | Part IX: Geraldo No Last Name, Edna’s Ruthie, The Earl of Tennessee, and Sire
New Characters:
Geraldo: a young man Marin meets at a dance
Ruthie: Edna’s daughter
Earl: the man who lives in Edna’s basement
Earl’s “wife”: the different women Earl brings home
Sire: a neighborhood boy
Lois: Sire’s girlfriend
Geraldo No Last Name
Marin meets Geraldo, a young Hispanic man, at a dance. He dies later that evening in a hit-and-run accident. No one seems to know anything about him, and no one seems to understand why Marin is so upset if she only met him that evening. Geraldo was a wetback, a temporary and probably illegal immigrant...
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