Drown Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter Six, "Boyfriend" Summary

Chapter Six, "Boyfriend" Summary

This is a very short story about Yunior listening to a woman and her boyfriend in the adjacent apartment. They are both gorgeous and never fight about money, so Yunior thinks they must be models. The boyfriend doesn't live with her and Yunior has seen him coming on to white girls at the bar, so Yunior knows that he's going to be leaving the girlfriend soon. Sometimes the two talk in the bathroom, more often than not, which may seem strange, but it nonetheless makes it easier for Yunior to overhear their conversations. He listens to them shower together, sometimes including sex. Sometimes their arguments are fierce and horrible. There comes a time when the boyfriend never returns and Yunior gets up the courage to ask the girlfriend up for coffee in his apartment. They drink a pot together but Yunior has the odd circumstance of having "the worst gas...
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