In the short story of "Volar" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, it shows patriarchy power because the father of the protagonist has the power in the house to decide whether or not they go to vacations. In the story the wife, and mother, ask her husband to go to vacation with the family, but the husband answer "no" because of insufficiency of money. He has the power to decide what to do with his money because he is the only one that makes go to work to make money. One time I hear someone saying "it's my money, and I can do whatever I want with my own money". I think that this quote apply to this short story because even though we don't notice right away, when I read it twice, I notice that the father is doing whatever he wanted to do with his money. I