| Sumario: | This article argues for a reading of Ernesto Quiñonez's novel Bodega Dreams as a post-colonial response to F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby. In probing the intertextual connections between the two novels, this paper argues that Quiñonez's engagement with Fitzgerald's text should be read as post-colonial response, as doing so highlights the persistent coloniality that is experienced by Puerto Ricans living in the mainland United States. By reading Bodega Dreams within the context of its specific Puerto Rican cultural dynamics, the paper argues that the coloniality of the Puerto Rican diaspora is revealed, and thus amplifies the critique of the American Dream that is initiated in Fitzgerald's classic.
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