Judith Ortiz Cofer's Volar Analysis

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Volar written by a Puerto Rican American writer, Judith Ortiz Cofer, is classified as a short story building the plot on a line of a family of immigrants going after the idea of American dream that includes a well-paying and stable job, a house in the suburbs, a family with two or three children a new car in the garage and two-week summer vacation (Rank, Hirschl &Foster, 2014: 3). By looking at the eye of little girl, the main character, to the events based on contrasts the girl’s fantasy and the reality in a small apartment, Ortiz Cofer achieves to shape her story’s economical portayal based on the American Dream in the way of the opposition her unpleasent, according to her, and desirable physical appearance. In constraction of the main character,

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