Read the excerpt from Sandra Cisneros’s story "Mericans."They’re not from here. Ladies don’t come to church dressed in pants. And everybody knows men aren’t supposed to wear shorts.Which best describes the irony in the narrator’s observation that the couple is “not from here”?

The narrator judges the couple as outsiders because their clothing breaks the local expectations about how women and men should dress at church. The irony is that the narrator also feels caught between cultures and does not fully belong in this place. Thus, the statement that the couple is “not from here” applies to the narrator too.

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