This story is about racial discrimination between the Mexicans and the Americans. Clemencia, who is a Mexican-American, is straddling two different cultures. Bitterness and resentment in Clemencia causes her to behave in a rebellious and destructive way. Due to her mother's influences and the day her mother abandons the family for white men which fuel her resentment against the white and she also share her negative feelings towards the Mexican race by refusing to get romantically involved with Mexican men and commits adultery with married white men.

With reference from paragraph 9 and 13 (page 69-70 and 71 respectively) tell me the hardships Mexican-Americans struggles with trying to fit into the totally different cultures. The native Mexican feels that these immigrants and their descendents are not "Mexican enough." From paragraph 44 (page 80) "he could never marry me", shows that the American feel that the Mexican-Americans are not "American enough" to be...