Drown

I can't help but be a little confused at the end of Drown. I thought that the story, "Fiesta, 1980" was set in the United States once Yunior's father brought his family from the DR, but once I read the final story I was confused as to what must happened after he left Nilda. As I'm writing this I'm trying to tie the knots and I'm guessing that once he left Nilda, he went to DR to get his first family. Yet I'm slightly confused by this line at the very end, "[...] I like to think that he grabbed that first train, instead of what was more likely true, that he had gone out to Chuito's first, before flying south to get us (208)" Why does Yunior like to think or hope that his father took that first train? Maybe Yunior wants to believe that his father actually wanted to be with his original family because he loved them and longed to be with them, but instead his father was just looking for an out from his family with Nilda. I think, with this final chapter, we see who Ramon really is.  At first he struggled a lot in the United States and having horrible jobs that he put a lot of hours into but didn't make that much money. Then the lying and the cheating comes. I think I was always expecting Ramon to do something horrible and he did, he cheated multiple times and went as far as having children with another women, then leaving that women to go back to his first wife. Maybe this shows the cultural ways of the men from DR since they think they can do anything and always expect their wives to still be there next to them no matter what they do. Which, is very true because Yunior's mother still forgives him and moves to the United States with Ramon and sons and daughter. So no matter what Ramon did, his wife was still there because he is the man and she is the woman. I know my thoughts are a little scrambled but these are just my final views of this book. There were many interesting topics and I can't quite seem to explain just one.

So what are your thoughts on the final chapter of Drown and how do you see all these stories connecting?