“Against Epiphanies” in Charles Baxter’s Burning down the House is explaining the idea that not all stories have to end in a conclusion. He explains that, “…discursive insights are so rare, in my experience, that they seem freakish” (Baxter 49). In other words that people don’t have epiphanies after conflict, or life changing experiences and if this doesn’t happen in the real world, why should it in books? Junot Diaz does just what Baxter is talking about in his essay. The story revolves around Yunior and his puking every time he gets in the car, and his father’s affair with a Puerto Rican woman. Throughout the story we get small glimpses of Yunior’s family and his relationships with his father. One of the car trips Yunior takes with his father