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John Vidal is a rich Cuban immigrant who lives in Miami. He’s married to Vera, although Vera’s mother pushed her into the marriage because John Vidal is wealthy, despite the fact that Vera has been in love with another man—Nazario—for most of her life. Vera shoots and kills Vidal as the story approaches its climax. Quiñonez uses Vidal’s Americanized appearance to show that many Latinx people feel ashamed of their heritage and try to mask it by appearing whiter.
John Vidal (Vera’s husband) Quotes in Bodega Dreams
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Book 2, Round 4
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With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. She spoke as if she had spent her formative years in some boarding school, walking around with a big lettered sweater tied around her shoulders.
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“I’ll buy her one bigger than that! One with a diamond as big as the Palladium.”
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Book 2, Round 10
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I would never have guessed he was Latin. He was more American than Mickey Mouse and just as old.
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John Vidal (Vera’s husband) Quotes in Bodega Dreams
The Bodega Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by John Vidal (Vera’s husband) or refer to John Vidal (Vera’s husband) . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 2, Round 4
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With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. She spoke as if she had spent her formative years in some boarding school, walking around with a big lettered sweater tied around her shoulders.
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“I’ll buy her one bigger than that! One with a diamond as big as the Palladium.”
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Book 2, Round 10
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I would never have guessed he was Latin. He was more American than Mickey Mouse and just as old.
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