My Afternoon With Dominic Short Story

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In the short story " My Afternoon With Dominic", by Joshua Castro and Dominic A. the narrators are two different persons but want the same thing. I believe that Joshua and Dominic both want love and to feel accepted. They each want the love and the acceptance in a different way but they both need it. Joshua seems like the guy who falls too quickly for someone and accepts others to treat him wrong. I think this because at the beginning of the story the way he was describing Dominic it made him sound a bit desperate. He didn’t see anything wrong with Dominic he just saw his physical appearance and got lost in his eyes. By Dominic's physical appearance Joshua got lost in him and let Dominic talk shit to him and not respect him. I believe Joshua let Dominic talk to him this way and be disrespectful because in Joshua's eyes Dominic was perfect.…show more content…
It is also obvious that they both have low self-esteem. In one way or another they both feel bad about themselves. Joshua feels bad at the way he looks and Dominic feels bad that he is thirty and alone. Joshua accepts people to take advantage of him because he needs love and Dominic takes advantage to feel love. Dominic also likes animals and this tells me that he is a caring person. Maybe he likes animals because they are the only thing that cant judge him. When Dominic said " My back is being a difficult bitch right now "(80) and Joshua replied " I suppose you'll want me to rub it for you ?" (80), it shows me that Joshua right away offered to feel the passion or feel that Dominic cared. Even though Dominic should have been the one wanting to hear that Joshua cared it was the other way around. Joshua was the one who cared and wanted to offer and Dominic couldn’t care less. Dominic showed he didn’t cared because he told him no, that he wanted someone else to do it for him. Dominic didn’t care how he made Joshua feel and by the looks of it , it made Joshua feel
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