How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
His face had darkened with shame at having his pleasure aroused in public by one of his daughters. (1.2.65)
It's all fun and games until it becomes really obvious that Papi is enjoying his daughters' kisses a little too much. But this moment isn't just about the kiss—it also reveals the weirdly sexual aspect to all of Papi's interactions with his daughters. Like the way he gives them money, doesn't want their husbands around, and refers to them with their mother as his "five girls."
Quote #5
The lover knew Yolanda would not have wanted him to know about this indelicacy of her body. She did not even like to pluck her eyebrows in his presence. An immediate bathrobe after her bath. Lights out when they made love. Other times, she carried on about the Great Mother and the holiness of the body and sexual energy being eternal delight. Sometimes, he complained he felt caught between the woman's libber and the Catholic señorita. (1.3.49)
Yoyo can be really insecure about her own sexuality. Sounds like she's caught in between two extremes—good girl and sex goddess—and neither one is really working for her.
Quote #6
Why I didn't just sleep with someone as persistent as Rudy Elmenhurst is a mystery I'm exploring here by picking it apart the way we learned to do to each other's poems and stories in the English class where I met Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst, the third. (1.5.3)
Yoyo is constantly analyzing her past sexual relationships, the way she does to stories and poems. And it's not because she just wants to relive the (sometimes awkward) experiences. She wants to learn something from them so she can move on.