In judith ortiz cofer's "gravity," how do elenita's mother and father conflict? a. the mother wants to return to puerto rico, nut the father is committed to staying in the united states. b. the mother wants elenita to attend public school, but the father insists that she attend catholic school. c. the father wants to start his own business, but the mother urges him to play iy safe as a bartender d. the father is ashamed f his cultural heritage, but the mother celebrates her background.

Answer is A for apex

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.