The line that I referenced earlier provides ample evidence: “He was stronger than me and held me down until water flooded my nose and throat,” is strong imagery of Beto overpowering the narrator. We wonder why? The first question is–why does he not want to see his best friend? The idea that Beto is the person who drowned the narrator is a logical answer to the question, but then the question becomes: How and why? This comes across as odd seeing as they were best friends. The line: “He was stronger than me and held me down until water flooded my nose and throat,” which describes an interaction between the protagonist and the his best friend, Beto, provides the foundation for the idea that Beto drowned Yunior (both literally and figuratively). Throughout the story we are given scenes that depict the narrator’s reluctance to see Beto during one of Beto’s breaks from college. In hindsight, the flashback that held the most insight to the meaning of the story is so painfully obvious, yet I missed it every time I read through “Drown.” This isn’t my first time reading Diaz–or even this short story–but this is the first time where I realized what the title of the story was saying.
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