“I am my parents’ son” that is the last sentence in the short story sixty-nine Cents, and that is the whole message of the test. The short story is written on September 3, in 2007. The author Gary Shteyngart describes himself in a tug of war between the Russian culture of his parents and the American culture. His parents are very traditional and want to keep the Russian culture. They are proud of where they come from and are Russian by blood.
When the narrator was fourteen years old his family and other Russian immigrant made a trip to Florida to see Disneyland. He likes being there and wants to be like every American-born boy. He wants to go to the beaches and speak to girls, and eat McDonald`s. Do all the things every boy at his age takes for granted. On page two, line 26, the protagonist said “I stalked down the beach, past baking Midwestern girls. “Oh, hi there. The words, perfectly American, not a birthright but an acquisition, perched between my lips, but to walk up to one of those girls and say something so casual required a deep rootedness to the
hot sand beneath me” He wants to talk to the girls, but he is very insecure about himself because he is not a native boy. Three words were all he needs, but he is very nervous and wants to do everything right. On the way back from Disneyland, they see a McDonald’s. One of his desires is to eat a McDonald’s sixty-nine-cent hamburger and drink a Coke, but he realizes it would not happen. Instead, he is offered a traditional Russian lunch consisting of “Soft-boiled eggs wrapped in tinfoil; vinigret, and Russian beet salad” He is so disappointed and sad at his own table.
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