Whose expectations impact Danny the most in Mexican WhiteBoy?

The
answer to this question is subjective, and I believe that readers could pick a couple of
different characters to answer the question. Personally, I believe that the expectations of
Danny's father impact Danny more than any other set of expectations. I find that quite
interesting because Danny's father is never present during the course of the book's events.
Danny thinks that his father has run away to Mexico, and Danny does well in school and plays
hard at baseball because he believes that those efforts will allow him to get to Mexico to see
his father.

Danny even begins planning to get down to Mexico and start living
with his father, regardless of how much school is left or what his mother wants. Readers see
Danny writing letter after letter to his father, and the letters are a mixture of truth and
fantasy, but it is clear that his father's expectations and approval mean more to Danny than
anybody else's expectations and approval.