Macho! (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Villaseñor
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: Mexico and California
- Principal Characters: Roberto Garcia, Juan Aguilar, Pedro, Esperanza, Don Carlos Villanueva
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Mexico or Mexicans, Latinos, Machismo, Volcanoes
- Locales: California, Mexico
The Novel
This fictional account of approximately a year in the life of a young man dramatizes the real plight of the migrant Mexican farmworker attempting to enter and work in the United States. Macho! is divided into three major parts, each labeled as a book and further subdivided into chapters. Books 1 and 3 are short, with the action set in the rural Mexican village of the principal characters; book 2 chronicles the odyssey of the protagonist, Roberto Garcia, into the violent underworld of the illegal migrant farmworker. Although the omniscient third-person narrator...
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