The chapter “Dance,Dance,Dance”of the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Diary Indian”, written by Sherman Alexie in year 2007, is about the two different personalities of Junior and the chapter deals with Junior´s secret that he is poor and his friends Roger and Penelope find it out.

At the beginning of the chapter Arnold thinks about his two personalities. In Reardan he has a girlfriend and he is very cool but in the rez he is a handicapped person with poor parent and an aggressive best friend. After that Junior tells the reader that at Reardan Highschool everybody thinks that he has lots of money, but in reality his family is really poor. Normally it´s not too hard for him, but it´s December and in this month he takes Penelope to the Winter Formal and Arnold has only five dollars in his pocket. On the Winter Formal he wears his dad´s old suit and he has thougt that everybody would lough because of this suit, but Penelope loves it. Junior and Penelope dance togehther and it is Junior´s best night in his life and he is happy that nobody notices that he is poor. At the end of the party Roger, Penelope, Arnold and other friends from Roger decide to drive into Spokane and have pancakes at adinner. But Junior wishes that Penelope doesn´t want to go to the dinner because Junior has not enough money to buy her many things but his girlfriend Penelope want to go to the dinner. In the dinner Junior orders things he isn´t able to pay. After this he is going to the bathroom, because he feels bad and Roger goes to the bathroom too. Junior tells Roger that he has forgotten his wallet and Roger lends him forty dollars. Back at school Penelope asks Junior if he is poor and he tells her the truth. She kisses him and she tells that,what Arnold tells her, Roger who brings Junior home. He realizes that Penelope and Roger are really good friends and both swear they are not going to tell anybody his secret.