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Marin, a young Puerto Rican woman who enjoys dancing, frequents dance halls in different parts of the city. One night at such a place she meets Geraldo, a young, attractive, and neatly dressed Mexican wearing green pants and a shiny shirt. He tells her his name and adds that he works in a restaurant.

Summary: Geraldo No Last Name Marin has stayed with him at the hospital, although she does not know why. She has to answer the police's questions, but she can't tell them much. She doesn't even know Geraldo's last name.

At a dance that night she had met a young man named Geraldo, and they danced together. After he left, Geraldo was killed in a hit-and-run car accident. He spoke no English, and he died because only an intern was working in the emergency room that night, and no surgeon came to tend to him.

Geraldo has no last name because there are no identification documents on his person. ... The only reason the hospital knows his first name is because Marin provides it. Marin also identifies Geraldo as a "wetback." This is a derogatory term referring to Geraldo's status as a Mexican illegal immigrant.

Analysis: Marin's distraught attitude at the death of Geraldo is not simply a result of knowing someone who died, for indeed this boy was merely a new acquaintance. Her repetition of "if the surgeon had come" is a clue that Geraldo's death was not inevitable.

Since Marin had just met Geraldo, she feels distress because she could not even provide his last name; consequently, his family in Mexico will never know what became of him in America or that he has been killed.

The narrator never tells the reader how she knows that Geraldo is an undocumented worker. Therefore, the reader surmises that Geraldo's appearance and behavior probably match those of many illegal workers. For example, he does not reveal much information about himself, not even his last name.

The main theme of Geraldo No Last Name centers on the human tragedy of the illegal worker, who must remain as anonymous as possible in order to survive. Marin's and Geraldo's lives touch only by chance because they happen to be in the same dance hall and they dance together.