Friday, June 21, 2013

In The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, how many times does Oscar attemptsuicide?

Directly, once. This incident occurs after he finds Jenni
committing adultery. Oscar drinks heavily and then decides that due to the curse (fuku), he
should throw himself off a bridge.


However, depending on your
viewpoint of what constitutes an "attempt," that number might increase. If you consider his
insistence near the end of his life to be desiring of death--his answer to the Mongoose, for
instance, being "more" indicating that he will push until he is destroyed--then it might be the
case that his murder could be viewed as a successful suicide attempt. However, this would require
a great deal of searching for evidence from the text.

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