As the narrator lounges in the street, she exalts Lucy’s family, expressing to readers a certain jealousy of the fact that her friend gets to “sleep in a bed with little sisters.” This is appealing to the narrator because she herself has to sleep “alone on the fold-out chair in the living room.” As such, she proves herself capable of registering loneliness while also taking note of the ways in which families from the same community—in this case a Latino community—can differ from one another. At the same time, she fails to grasp the full implications of the fact that…