Importance of The Guitar

Gonzalez's father guitar represents two things: their homeland (tradition and culture) and the tool of a lover. Gonzalez's father believes that wanting to be in a music group is the same as desiring to be a lover. Considering what the guitar symbolizes in Gonzalez's family, the fact that he cannot play it is equally symbolic. He does not want to attract girls, he is happy when he escapes his family tradition and is at times ashamed of both their tradition and culture, and in a way, it is a rejection of his father. He is his mother's boy.