By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons – old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America. JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the "Wanted" poster would read. Who would ever trace her to me?

Based on this passage, what inference can be made about the way Alvarez became accustomed to life in the United States?

She felt more comfortable in the company of her Dominican family.
She made many American friends but refused to let go of her culture.
She introduced her American friends to many Dominican customs.
She became very well accustomed to life among the Americans.