I chose the idiom, “more than what meets the eye” to represent Jorge from the poem Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits by Martín Espada. As a janitor at the church, Jorge felt underappreciated and masked by a stereotypical barrier. Although he had been employed at the church for a long amount of time, no one had taken to time to know him as an individual. Jorge wished to be seen as more than the man who mopped the floors and cleaned the restrooms. Jorge chose to quit, but felt that no one would even notice that he had left unless they needed someone to complain to. Rather than identifying Jorge as an independent man, most identified him as the figure behind the mop.
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