In Chapter 1 of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz uses a character foil to contrast Maritza and Olga, Oscar’s two young “girlfriends.” When he was seven years old, Oscar had two girlfriends at the same time. Maritza was beautiful, glamorous, and rich. She was friends with Lola. Olga was the exact opposite: she was poor, seen as ugly, and Puerto Rican, which, in Dominican culture, meant that she was at the bottom of society.
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