Question

Read the following excerpt from Gary Soto’s story "Like Mexicans."

My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice, she said that I should become a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey, they don’t work como burros,” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that, honey!” For the good advice, she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies, hijo”—she would say— “Look, my son. He marry one and they fight every day about I don’t know what and I don’t know what.” For her, everyone who wasn’t Mexican, black, or Asian were Okies. The French were Okies, the Italians in suits were Okies. . . . she lectured me on the virtues of the Mexican girl.

What inference can be made about the grandmother’s point of view in this excerpt?

Answer 1

Answer:

She wants to preserve her family’s Mexican culture even though she no longer lives in Mexico.

Explanation:

in the given excerpt from Gary Soto's story "Like Mexicans" he describes how his grandmother adviced him to marry a Mexican girl instead of an "Okie" because she said that "Okies" were too much trouble. From this advice and other information found in the excerpt we can infer about the grandmother's point of view that she wants to preserve her family’s Mexican culture even though she no longer lives in Mexico.

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