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Maria Cristina Mena and Katherine Anne Porter were two noteworthy authors in postcolonial Mexican Literature, and avid interpreters of Mexican culture. Determining who would be the more accurate interpreter between these two writers will take some reflection. I will be looking at both Mena and Porter’s work to determine who is the foremost interpretive writer of Mexican culture from a postcolonial view, I will also be focusing on some of the strengths and weaknesses of each writer and a discussion of their works from this view. To begin with, I will be discussing the life of Maria Cristina Mena who as Amy Doherty states was born in Mexico City, to “a Spanish mother and Yucatan father” and had an upper class background that allowed her to later immigrate to New York City at the age of fourteen, before the Mexican Revolution. During Mena’s time in New York, she began writing of the oppressions that Mexico had endured during the Revolution to well-known magazine publishers, some of which include the “American Magazine” and “The Century Magazine.” One of Mena’s first works as a young writer was “The Gold Vanity Set,” which was published in 1913, in the Century Magazine, a distinguished publication whose audi