Tortilla Comparison and Contrast Between CharactersTortilla Curtain is a wonderful book showing the typical life of a Hispanic family pursuing American and a white family born there. Delaney Mossbacher, a stay-at-home dad, is confronted with life in a modern America and an immigrant from Mexico, Candido Rincon seeking nothing more than to realize the American dream which, for him and his young wife, is beginning to seem inaccessible due to the constant problems they begin to face. . These two characters throughout the story show very similar traits both positive and negative, while sharing how they overcome the struggles of life in modern America. Both fathers and/or soon-to-be fathers, their reaction to being the typical American family man, both an immigrant and a descendant, reveals a very negative perspective of racism between the two sides. The constant obstacles the two men must overcome and the idea of ​​hitting and being hit by a car imprints itself into their minds, you become a first-hand witness to the fear, self-conscious insecurities and racism that these men face. For starters, the constant obstacles that stand in the way of both men boil down to past fear or conscious insecurity formulated from past experiences. After being injured by a car, due to his upbringing in classical Mexican culture, he refuses America to work for his money. “America got up at first light on the fourth day after the accident and tried to slide up the hill. before waking up” (25). America is not mature enough to fully understand the situation she has put herself in by coming to America, the place she finds herself in can be very dangerous for her. Candido a...... middle of paper ......n where life is good. They are cunning, versatile, hungry and unstoppable. »(214-5). these comparisons of the two men, both completely different, show very similar traits when comparing their reactions to culture and overcoming their insecurity. "She didn't answer, and he felt the cold seep into his veins, a coldness and weariness like he had never known. Dark water was all around him, water as far as the eye could see. , and he wondered if he would ever warm up. He was beyond the curses, beyond the sorrow, numb to the depths of himself, yes, but when he saw the white face emerge from the black whirlwind. of the current and the white hand grasping the tiles, he bent down and took hold of them" (355).WorkscitedBoyle, TC The Tortilla Curtain. New York: Viking Penguin - Penguin Books, 1995. Print.