T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author of The Tortilla Curtain, wrote a story of different feelings and attitudes regarding racial misunderstandings. In this novel, Topanga Canyon is a home for two different couples, the Mossbachers who lives in their most decent lives, and the Rincons who lives in the ravine of the canyon. The author portrays the Mossbachers of Los Angeles namely Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher. Delaney as a high class individual living in Topanga Canyon, and a nature writer, and Kyra, his wife as a realtor who is dominating or excessively wanting to her desire of making more money through her clients, but also a mother of their child named Jordan whom she picks up from school after her returning from work and fix dinner. The author also portrays a character of two Mexicans, Candido and wife America Rincon. The author characterizes them in this novel as couples who desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation and live in the ravine. The author brought his two main characters, Delaney and Candido, into a sudden afternoon accident in the road of Topanga Canyon. These four main characters by the author and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragic- comedy of misunderstandings.
             T.C Boyle's novel, The Tortilla Curtain, has a theme of a distaste of California's most decent living people for the illegal Mexicans who perform the state's lowest quality of labor. Boyle's pale hero is named as Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a realtor, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon called the Arroyo Blanco Estates. Delaney as a nature writer considers his overpopulated city of Los Angeles as a source of his writing:
             He tried to confine himself to the flora and fauna of Topanga Canyon and the surrounding mountains... And how he could ignore the large trends- overpopulation, desertification, the depletion of the seas and ...