A Study Guide for Junot Diaz's "The Sun, the moon, the Stars"
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The Sun, the Moon, the Stars
Junot Díaz
1998
Introduction
The story came about after Díaz spent a summer working as an interpreter for a U.S.-sponsored dentistry mission in Santo Domingo. The job gave Díaz an opportunity to visit his native Dominican Republic and experience it again from the perspective of someone who has lived for years in the United States. According to Díaz in the Contributors' Notes
in The Best American Short Stories 1999, that summer they pulled … five thousand teeth on the trip and … rubbed shoulders with many of the country's elite,
a contrast Díaz sought to capture in a story. After a year of revising the story, Díaz realized that he should delete all references to dentistry and focus more on the dissolution of the relationship between his two main characters. Once I got that insight,
says Díaz, I finished the story in a single day, the culmination of sixteen months of work.
This achievement represented something else for the author, however. "I still remember that day. The first piece I'd finished since my book [Drown] was published. My hands were shaking." The story first appeared in The New Yorker and was later included in the anthology The Best American Short Stories 1999.
The Sun, the Moon, the Stars
recounts the ways in which Yunior, a proud Dominican male, manages to sabotage his relationship with Magdalena, a woman who seems very much like every man's ideal. The story progresses from one miscue to another as Yunior attempts to remedy the damage he has caused by having an affair. The couple travels from metropolitan New York to Santo Domingo to celebrate an anniversary, but the vacation, instead of reviving their love for each other, only brings an end to their relationship. Yunior does not think of himself as a bad guy, yet his actions contradict him at every turn. Charming and engaging, he is, nevertheless, his own worst enemy.
Author Biography
In 1968, Junot Díaz was born into a barrio family and raised in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. In 1975, he moved with his family to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Díaz has held a variety of jobs, including copy shop assistant, dishwasher, steelworker, pool table delivery man, editorial assistant, and freelance writer. Díaz completed a bachelor of arts degree in literature and history at Rutgers University and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at Cornell.
Díaz burst onto the literary scene with the publication of his short story collection Drown (Riverhead Books, 1996). The young author earned himself a six-figure advance that was unprecedented for someone who had only published five stories and who had nothing more than a one-page synopsis of a novel to show publishers bidding at auction. Success has not come without its price, however, for Díaz has published little