Personally I think the fragmented style of writing that
Cisneros adopts has a great effect on the impact of this piece. There is a sense in
which the style links to the theme of the vignette. We are given a series of fragments
of sentences in a very broken style:
She met him at a dance. Pretty too, and young.
Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can't remember which one. Geraldo. That's all.
Green pants and Saturday shirt. Geraldo. That's what he told
her.
Note that this broken
style reflects the shock and disorientation of Marin in finding out that the man she had
danced with just a few hours before had been killed. However, there is a sense in which
this broken, incomplete style also reflects the incomplete picture we are given of
Geraldo and his story. He is left unfinished, a hidden figure of whom we capture only
vague glimpses. This relates to the central theme of the plight of migrant workers, who
need to remain anonymous for their own safety.
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