Summary the brief wondrous life of oscar wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Summary
In the section "The Golden Age," Junot Díaz introduces the novel’s hero, Oscar de Léon. Oscar is "a Dominican boy raised in a relatively 'normal' Dominican family." Even at the relatively young age of seven, he begins taking a keen interest in girls. He is a great hit at parties, where he entertains adults who force his attention on any girl hisage. His mother is proud of his premature display of manliness.

Once, Oscar even has two girlfriends at the same time—Maritza Chacon and Olga Polanca. However, this "threesome lasted only a week." Maritza insists that Oscar choose between herself and Olga. Oscar does not find it difficult to choose Maritza, because she is more beautiful than Olga. Olga cries her heart out when Oscar breaks upwith her, but Oscar responds nonchalantly by saying, "Don't be a baby."

However, the Monday after he breaks up with Olga, he sees Maritza at the bus stop holding hands with another boy, Nelson Pardo. Maritza refuses to smile at Oscar and pretends that she does not even see him. At first, Oscar does not believe his eyes, but when he hears Maritza tell Nelson that they should get married, he sitsdown on the curb and begins to cry. He is still crying when he boards the school bus, which arrives shortly.

The rejection by Maritza affects him deeply: "his life shot straight down the tubes." In two years, he grows fatter and fatter and consequently avoids any contact with girls because they find him repulsive: "he did not kiss another girl for a long, long time." Olga is similarlyaffected, and she too becomes fat and repulsive: "even her breasts, when they finally emerged, were huge and scary." However, Maritza becomes prettier and prettier: "Maritza blew up into the flyest girl in Paterson, New Jersey."

The second section, "The Moronic Inferno," deals with Oscar's high school life at Don Bosco Tech. Oscar finds life at this all-boys Catholic school run by the Salesian Fathersand Brothers stressful. In his sophomore year, Oscar weighs two hundred and ten pounds, which would increase by another ten pounds whenever he was depressed. At school, he is like most other kids; "throughout high school he did the usual ghetto nerd things." His main interest is "the end of the world," and he voraciously reads all the available books on that topic. However, there is one veryserious shortcoming: "he didn't date no one. Didn't even come close." This is despite the fact that he is internally a very passionate and affectionate lover. Sadly, no girl in the neighborhood is aware of his capacity for love and affection.

His virginity and lack of girlfriends are often topics of discussion at home. Everyone has advice to offer him. Oscar's sister, Lola, warns him ratherominously, "You're going to die a virgin."

Oscar's sister, who had been raped by a senior when she was only in the sixth grade, is well versed in matters concerning love and sex. She cuts her hair short and is quite a rebel who would "say anything to anybody." She often advises Oscar, who true to his character would not listen to her. The main narrator of the novel later gets to date Lola incollege. Currently however, Lola is dating "a failed welter weight Golden Gloves boxer." Lola's three friends—Gladys, Marisol, and Leticia—also date macho, weight-lifting types. The three "sex kittens" provide enough titillation for Oscar when they visit his sister. Much to Oscar's discomfort, completely oblivious of his presence but well within his hearing, they loudly prattle on and on about theirsex lives.

The third section, "Oscar Is Brave," describes Oscar's disappointment at not getting a girlfriend in his senior year at Don Bosco Tech, and his simmering jealousy of his two video-game-playing friends, Al and Miggs, who succeed in doing so.

One day, Al brags that he met his girl by chance for the first time at the Menlo Park Mall. She informed him that another friend of hers was...