Never Marry a Mexican

Wow! "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
Her style has an interesting, kind of punchy, sentence structure. It's as if she just wants to get to the point of the sentence and doesn't have time to be bothered with verbs or adjectives which may be unnecessary to make a specific point. However, this does not seem to be due to any shortcomings on her part (as is too often the case with very stylized writers... or very stylized anything for that matter*). There are portions of this story which are beautifully written in which the author brandishes language quite decoratively to describe this or that scene, though I think that she prefers to use concise descriptors for much of the body of her work. Such as in her description of her father on his deathbed and what that was like and how it looked physically, as well as emotionally, to her; that was concise. But the ending was definitely much more poetic, what a beautiful way to use the English language!
I don't want to be over-analytical here, but if this is a purely fictional piece, than I think that the author put a lot of thought into every word in this piece. Which is funny considering that it comes across as very disjointed and funny because the tone rings slightly of a "prose-oem" (that's prose and poem stuck together... Yeah, I just did that, pretty smooth right?) rather than straight-no-chaser prose. I say this because, you can draw a lot of parallels between her life/relationship and her childhood (i.e. her father dying while her mother cheats on him v.s. her and her lover sleeping together while the wife of her lover gives birth to their child). This tells a lot about the character's possible motives in regards to sex/romance and leaves a good sized well in her character from which to draw your own conclusions. For example, I would say that the young woman, in some strange way, mirrors her mother's morality as she dredges through what seems to be an existential dilemma about revenge. And, I would say that the narrator is actually very like her mother. But you might draw an entirely different conclusion than I did and be correct. If this is pure fiction, than that is a well thought out character, and that is a much more complex relationship than it seems on the surface.
I liked that I couldn't decide whether the main character is deeply self-involved or incredibly out of touch with herself, whether she actually believes herself to be empowered by all of this or whether she fully realizes the effect that this affair is having on her self-esteem. I thought that this was very true to life, it's not cut and dry and in fact, there's a level of polarity in her personality which probably would arise from this ordeal. She can't figure out if she's broken, trodden on, and worthless or if she is the strong hand which wields the blade. She is all wrapped up in this revenge which involves sleeping with the son of the man who broke her heart when she was young, in order to (I guess) break the son's heart as well as expose the whole affair to him, but at the same time she kind of places herself in a position to once again be victimized, and for what? To completely loose what little self respect she has left? The point that I'm making is that there is a lot to chew on. That it was very well thought out, but presented in such a way that you are lead to believe that you are reading the ranting of a woman who is going mad, meaning, it seems as though it's not well thought out, which I think was the intention because that was the mood which the author wanted.

*Note: I am not saying that style is not important or that some of the best books that I have ever read did not have very specific styles (Salinger for example) I'm only saying that it can be a crutch, and it often is.