Pepe is introduced in the story as a cocky, and impetuous individual as proof by Harold Blooms analysis Pepe is a cocky and impetuous but mentally limited young man who is destroyed when a social situation places him responsibilities that he is unequipped to assume. It happens to be a little shack standing next to another rotting barn.

The scene is set fifteen miles away from Monterrey, Mexico, at the Torres family farm which is owned by Mama Torres. His laziness comes as a result of spending all day practicing with a knife that his father gave him shortly before he died. Since the beginning of the story, Pepe is constantly berated by his mother about being too lazy and not being near a man like his father.Įvidence of this includes mama Torres saying Some lazy cow must have got into thy fathers family, else how could I have a son like thee. It is at her place that Pepe becomes drunk and stabs a drunken stranger. Rodriguez who happens to live in Monterrey and is a good friend of the Torres family. The story begins with an introduction of the characters which includes Mama Torres, the antagonist, Pepe, the protagonist along with several other family members. Why does this young individual accept this task knowing the dangerousness of it The answers could very well lie within his own personal battles.Īfter a chance encounter with a random group of guys, this young individual soon realizes the importance of not growing up too quick a lesson that may have been taught a little too late. He abruptly accepts this chance from his mother after being told what he needed.

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