T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain

12). The superficial politically illuminate instance of Delaney unites him with only those of his own kind, comparable his wife. As such, it is a fatade and is actually used to exhibit prejudice and racism toward those who be not just like him. For this reasons, Delaney is not some unitary I would like to know, since he is a wealthy exsanguinous racialist driven to keep out Mexicans, whom he considers inferior.

The story gives from the gondola cable car accident, which makes Delaney more aware of the encroaching illegal immigrants. In one scene, this fear and prejudice is symbolized by an attack on Arroyo Blanco by a coyote that leaps the fence and makes off with a dearie dog. Delaney's reaction demonstrates his fear that brutish animals are little terrorening the clean serenity of Arroyo Blanco, "His brain decoded the image: a coyote had in some way managed to get into the enclosure and seize one of the dogs, and there it was, hazardous reputation, up and over the fence as if this were some manakin of circus act," (Boyle, p. 37). Symbolically, the coyote stands for the Mexicans who are also a threat in Delaney's perspective to the white order of Arroyo Blanco.

The story continues to unfold as rumors of various acts of crime are said to be occurring in Arroyo Blanco. Signs of migrant shelters are found on the property. The passage of arms between the white order represented by Delaney's character and the Mex

ican immigrants, characterized by Candido and his wife, America, continues to increase because of the racist fears of the residents of Arroyo Blanco. The order and predictability that characterize Delaney's life are threatened by the Mexicans.

We see this originally when, after hitting Candido's car, Delaney is in a state of confusion and stress until he arrives at the car dealership, a place that represents to him "a bastion of the familiar and orderly," (Boyle, p. 13).

Eventually, Delaney becomes determined to rid Arroyo Blanco of the Mexicans. He believes that it is his job to rid the community of this threat. He eventually attacks Candido and America as they lie unarmed in their makeshift housing. It is at this point that we see Boyle's point that nature will not tolerate artificial barriers between individuals ground on race and ethnicity the most. A flash flood sweeps in upon the community, taking with it Delaney and his victims. At this point in the story, from Candido's perspective, we may be provided with the best description of Delaney's appearance and character, for all he sees in the ensuing chaos is a "white face and flailing white arms, caught up in the mad black swirl?like a man drowning in shit," (Boyle, p. 353).

Because of my own experiences with racism and prejudice, I felt this story was excellent on a recite of levels. I felt the characters served to symbolize the main element
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