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In the short story “Never Marry a Mexican,” the author, Sandra Cisneros, creates several important factors which affect how the narrator views marriage and life. Different key events and certain people impact her perspectives of marriage. Each of these events and people have specific contributions which help develop her character. At the beginning of the story, the narrator distinguishes her opinion on marriage right away. Her thoughts on men and marriage are very direct and she subtly hints that she had been through an emotionally disturbing experience with a man prior to telling the story. To build up to this experience, she starts by giving depressing flashbacks from her childhood and young adult years. The relationship between her mother and father was never at all strong or romantic. This could be a key factor for her opinion on marriage and also could explain why she begins to make part of her living in the form of prostitutio