Miguel Street Essay

Discuss the representation of man and humankind in the 2 short stories of Miguel Street. On Miguel Street, the representation of man and manhood back tooth be seen negatively in these two short stories Bogart and A affair without a name. Where as a mans manhood is considered strong if certain characteristics such as aggression, evading the law and their present supporting circumstances. The story about Bogart illustrates where his manhood being threaten where as Bogart is uneffective to father a child by his Tunapuna wife so he finds a means to escape this difficulty. He goes elsewhere, run a elegant brothel, meets a nonher woman and successfully impregnates. Once he has achieved his goal of proving his virility, he may return to Miguel Street although he returns as a bigamist as Hat would say To be a man, among we man.He would nowadays be seen as a high standing man of the community, playing with the surrounding children and giving them parties, which is a vastly different f rom the life he once had by pretending to be a tailor only if now is seen The main character in A thing without a name Popo is a carpenter by profession but he is not considered a man among his peers as his wife was the main breadwinner of the family which did not bothered him as he would continue to make a thing without a name. This however changed when Popo wife left him for another man, it is past that he was accepted as one of the gang within Miguel Street, as they could related to his pain and heart ache. His man hood was however bruised by the separation of his wife , so he would then retaliate by fighting the other man and going to prison, which eventually made him an virtuoso on Miguel street.