Personality… loud, outspoken, and feisty. Gloria knows what she wants and how to get it. She is good-natured, fun-loving, and compassionate, but also extremely prideful and at times manipulative. All together, Gloria is full of passion and zest for life.
Jay Pritchett is the patriarch of a chaotic and intertwined "modern" family. Jay was married to DeDe, the flighty mother of his children Claire and Mitchell who are now grown up with children and challenges of their own. Jay is now remarried to a fiery Latina named Gloria, who has a son from a prior marriage. Gloria hails from a lovely little village in Colombia, which also happens to be the murder capital of that fine country.
She's married to Jay , who is quite a few years older. That doesn't matter to Gloria. She loves what she loves. And she truly loves Jay and her son, Manny. In the episode "Goodnight Gracie," viewers find out that Gloria didn't always live in California after moving from Columbia; she also lived in Texas and Florida. In fact, Manny was born in Florida. Gloria and her first husband Javier had a very troublesome marriage. They had a whirlwind romance that was filled with fighting and passion.
Manny was conceived from their relationship but it was soon after that Javier bolted. Gloria and Javier divorced and she despised him ever since. But one crazy thing that happened at Gloria and Javier's wedding that is often forgotten is their ceremony. In "The Incident," Gloria said her ceremony was cut short after drug dealers barged in, killed the judge, and left.
It makes it even sadder that her wedding to Jay was also interrupted by a very drunk DeDe. Jay calls them "the Colombians" but Gloria calls them her family. There have been multiple times that Gloria has mentioned different family members but it's hard to keep track because there are so many! In total, Gloria has 29 cousins. What's impressive is that in "The Musical Man," Gloria knows every single one of their names.
A few of them have been shown on camera but not much is known about them. Armando was shown in "American Skyper" where he was staying with Gloria and Jay. Rather, her performance of Gloria walks the delicate tightrope between the offensive and the entertaining, and in the process manages to ring very familiar with uncomfortable intimacy. US Colombian women who felt intense social pressure to adhere to normative notions of beauty and heterosexual womanhood in Colombia as well as the United States.
I am reminded of myself, of my fraught relationships to Colombian Catholic gender norms in particular, the deeply engrained cultural and religious beliefs about womanhood that travel North with Colombian migrants and that often flourish for generations.
I recall the difficult relationships that I often have with my family, conflicts oftentimes grounded in my rejection of the gendered norms with which I was raised. I realize that this is a dangerous proposition: that the stereotype, the archetype that as a Media Studies scholar and as a Latina I am trained to identify and deconstruct, holds a grain of truth.
Rather, it is a uniquely diasporic, gendered, classed, raced, and regionalized performance that cannot be understood in all of its dimensions without its proper contextualization. Aparicio, Frances R. Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad.
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