The Wedding (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Helen Ponce
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Taconos, a fictional town in Southern California
- Principal Characters: Blanca Muñoz, Sammy-the-Cricket Lopez, Lucy Matacochis, Tudi, Sally, Father Ranger
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Marriage, Gangs, youth, California, West, U.S., Multiculturalism, Women, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Latinos, Weddings
- Locales: California
The Novel
The Wedding fictionally re-creates a small-town barrio (neighborhood) near Los Angeles in the 1950’s and traces events surrounding the wedding of Blanca Muñoz and Sammy-the-Cricket Lopez. Ironically contrasting a young woman’s romantic dreams with her world’s reality, the novel portrays working-class Mexican Americans’ ability to live spirited lives on the fringes of society.
The Wedding’s two parts, told by an omniscient narrator, focus mainly on Blanca. The first part ranges from the characters’ childhood to just before the wedding....
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