Drown | Characters & Character Analysis

Drown Characters

Yunior

Yunior is the first person narrator as well as the protagonist in these loosely connected stories. In the beginning, his parents are together and the family resides in one household. However, the father, Papi, is abusive and unpredictable. Yunior is afraid of him but loves him fiercely. Throughout the course of the stories, as the father leaves and the family struggles financially, Yunior changes from a sweet, typical boy-child to a more hardened young man who must survive on the streets: first in Dominica, and later in New Jersey. Yunior makes no excuses for the misery of his life and his choices, although he often longs for something finer and cleaner for himself and his girlfriend. Although the reader may feel horrified at the drug dealing, casual sex, and violence that Yunior participates in, there is still the sense that Yunior is a person good at the core. He tells...
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