Research Paper On The Tortilla Curtain

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Ryan Ruxlow Chestnut 1hr Honors English 4 26 February 2017 Connecting the Glass Castle to the Real World In T.C. Boyle’s novel The Tortilla Curtain (TTC) the middle-class American couple Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher have a very twenty-first century family dynamic. Kyra is a devoted real estate agent—a total workaholic and evidently the breadwinner of the home while Delaney takes care of his stepson Jordan, and works on his writing. Women like Kyra, career oriented, are not unheard of in our society today. Many American women work and provide for their families today – not relying on a man to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. American women as well as women in other countries, even single women can connect to Kyra in TTC

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