Mrs Perez Essay

The Mrs. Perez
Mrs. Perez is a lovely lady that loves her family, her daughters and husband, who passed away, and she really likes to enjoy things in life. She always wants to do things on her own and not be dependent on anyone, really independent lady, enjoys bowling and spending time with friends and her family. Lola is from a small town in Texas called Brownsville, and that is really close to the border of Mexico so the struggle is real. People have to work hard to have a better lifestyle for their families. That is exactly what Mrs. Perez tries to do for her family. A hard working mother of three daughters that she loves so much and also loves to bowl. Family is everything to some people and, fortunately, for Mrs. Perez, family always

comes first. “After her first baby, she had never really considered doing anything other than raising her family” (Casares). Lola has three girls that she loves very much, and once they grew old enough to handle themselves, she knew she did her job correctly. Mrs. Perez finds a great job as a receptionist at a clinic, after her three little girls grew up. She loves helping people out with whatever she could handle. Her husband was not really supportive after he saw what she did at the clinic, that she took him to when he got sick. She worked as a receptionist but also helped out in the back with the nurses when they needed the help. Her daughters supported what she did, but her husband did not really. Mrs. Perez loves him so much that when Mr. Perez asks her to stop working at the clinic she had to. Mr. Perez judges everything that Mrs. Perez does, so she had to be considerate of her actions. Pretty much she would do everything that her husband did not mind her doing and could not do anything that her husband did not like. Everything is out of respect for each other. The flashbacks she gets during the story tell readers how Mrs. Perez’s life was before the present day. Mrs. Perez’s life would go back and forth in the story. The narrator would talk about what is going on in her life recently and then talks about what happened in the past. That really gave a good understanding to what is going on in the story. It gave the reader an idea of what is happening and why things were the way they are.

She talks about her husband not liking her job at the clinic because he did not like her carrying other men’s urine around and she lost a friendship because of that: “After she stopped working at the office, Lola saw Vangie only when she or one of her girls was sick. She always stayed a little longer at the office on those visits. Vangie would invite her out to lunch or coffee, and Lola would say she’d call one of these days, but then she never would” (Casares). Vangie is one of the last friends she made while working at the clinic, and she remembered that Vangie is a great friend that she missed: “When Lola looked up from her pew, she realized that the women standing in front of her was the last friend she could remember having made in more than ten years” (Casares). She ends up regaining the friendship back after she starts to bowl. The flashbacks were really important because the narrator shows us why she felt some type of way about a certain situation. The bowling ball meant the world to Mrs. Perez because bowling helped her escape from reality for a few hours and she won most of her trophies with that cherry ball: “She sat in her recliner again and looked at her trophies. Most of them had been won with her cherry red ball, and she tried to remember a time

before she had the ball” (Casares). She used bowling to distract herself, and by the ball getting stolen it kills her inside. She plays in a league with her friends and also has a lot of trophies at home from the tournaments she participated in. When Mrs. Perez has her bowling ball stolen from her by a teenager, she almost lost it. Mrs. Perez did not care how much money was spent on the ball, she just wants her ball back because it is not fair to her that someone would just take something she loves. She made new connections and made up some friends she had lost, and if it was not for bowling, everything would have been different for her. The cherry red bowling ball with her name engraved into it was something special, and losing something really hurts inside. Mrs. Perez loves her family so much and would do anything to make them happy. She enjoys everything in life. Even though her husband did not really agree with her at some point, she makes the best of everything she does. She loves bowling, hanging out with her friends and winning tournaments. Mrs. Perez is a hardworking woman and pretty sure her daughters look up to her. Everything she does is for her family, so they can have a better lifestyle. Bowling, Friendship, and family is pretty much all she cares for and that is what really is important to her