Last story is particularly humorous. Shoving responsibility onto others rather than collaborating.

"Salome was a dance"

Mother living vicariously through her child. Themes of Independence.

Whole story is honestly kind of morbid... theme of responsibility? Owning up to your actions? "It was all the mother's fault", not really...

"Post Colonial"

Some kind of commentary on immigration? Definitely references to colonialism... is she saying immigrants are colonialists?

References to Us v Them mentality.

"reminds Father of the open-air markets in Mexico"

I happen to have been to a spanish open-air market. The vendors tried to jack up the price because they thought I was a "estúpido turista gringo". They gave me a discount when I replied to them in Spanish.

Setting; Maxwell Street, open air market Created via smells, sights, and sounds. Takes place in past, author still young.

Narrator is author, but main character is Father. Important event is father trying to haggle for shoes.

Conflict, father can't haggle right, climax, pays too much for shoe.

Lots of imagery, the church, the street, the shoes, etc.

Conventional themes of Family, Community, and Heritage.

"I said forty and get outta here, you heard me. Father pays his money muttering, dirt, dirt, for this dirt,"

Her father doesn't know how to haggle.

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