Three Quotations

Three Quotations:

"Never marry. Not any man"

In the story, Clemencia says this after taking her mom's advice to "never marry a Mexican". Her mother told her to marry an "Americanized person". Clemencia however, believed that all men cheat. There were two options, to get cheated on, or to get cheated with. Clemencia didn't choose any and didn't marry. She chose the mistress-role and had affairs with married white men to prove that all men cheat on their woman.

"Never marry a Mexican, my ma said once and always."

In the beginning of the story, Clemencia tells her daughter "not to marry a Mexican". Clemencia takes the advice but changes it up alittle. Instead of marrying an "Americanized person", she doesn't marry at all. Clemencia believed that all men cheated so she never married. 

"I'm amphibious. I'm a person who doesn't belong to any class."

In the story, Clemencia says this. She is trying to tell the reader that she doesn't need to be classified. In the story, Clemencia takes her mom's advice and "not marry a Mexican". Clemencia had two choices, one, to get cheated on, or two, to get cheated with. She believed that all men cheated. So her decision was to not marry at all. Instead she took the mistress-role.