Vadim's Compare And Contrast Essay

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Throughout her childhood, the narrator’s parents hardly interact unless they are fighting which leaves the narrator confused about their relationship and why they stay together when they seemed to have nothing in common. Through pressing Vadim for information on his relationship with his wife, the narrator begins to fill in pieces of information about her own parents. Vadim explains that after his hard work as a taxi driver “every penny [he] earns he turns over to [his wife]” (Nunez, p.134). The narrator finds this strange, but understands as her father “work[ed] two jobs” and still “did not make much money” (Nunez, p.12). With this comparison the narrator understands that money is “the first order of business… in [a] new country” and that

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