I think Diaz’s descriptions of just about any and everyone in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is fantastico!  I especially enjoy how Trujillo was described “(El Jefe, the Failed Cattle Thief, and Fuckface)” just to name a few, and how we see these descriptions again for Trujillo throughout the work, I mean what’s not to love, the guy was all of these.

I like the way Oscar is unapologetic, while at the same time in dealing with the women (as Elizabeth mentioned in class), very humanizing.  I started to warm up to Beli a bit more in part Three. Even though I’m not big on violence, I can appreciate her no holds bar approach to life, where she literally and figuratively comes out swinging.

As for Oscar what a riot, how the ideal machismo stereotype is thrown out the window.  How he is truly wounded by heartbreak, and how he recognizes that his friends are not friends at all.  Oscar sister Lola is quite the character as well.  She seems to be following in her mother’s footsteps as far as discontentment is concerned.