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Beli’s second love and the husband of Trujillo’s sister. He is wealthy due to his services as a hit man for Trujillo, and offers Beli a world of luxury that he really cannot deliver. Though he can be gentle to Beli, his vanity and insecurity prevent him from understanding true love. When Beli gets pregnant, the Gangster leaves her to the punishment of his wife.
The Gangster Quotes in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao quotes below are all either spoken by The Gangster or refer to The Gangster. 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:
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Book 1, Chapter 3
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…you could argue that the Gangster adored our girl and that adoration was one of the greatest gifts anybody had ever given her. It felt unbelievably good to Beli, shook her to her core. (For the first time I actually felt like I owned my skin, like it was me and I was it.)
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All those people have families, you can tell by their faces, they have families that depend on them and that they depend on, and for some of them this is good, and for some of them this is bad. But it all amounts to the same shit because there isn’t one of them who is free. They can’t do what they want to do or be who they should be. I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free. She had never heard anyone say those words. I’m free wasn’t a popular refrain in the Era of Trujillo.
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The Gangster Quotes in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao quotes below are all either spoken by The Gangster or refer to The Gangster. 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:
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Book 1, Chapter 3
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…you could argue that the Gangster adored our girl and that adoration was one of the greatest gifts anybody had ever given her. It felt unbelievably good to Beli, shook her to her core. (For the first time I actually felt like I owned my skin, like it was me and I was it.)
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All those people have families, you can tell by their faces, they have families that depend on them and that they depend on, and for some of them this is good, and for some of them this is bad. But it all amounts to the same shit because there isn’t one of them who is free. They can’t do what they want to do or be who they should be. I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free. She had never heard anyone say those words. I’m free wasn’t a popular refrain in the Era of Trujillo.
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