Someone – the perspective is not identified – wonders 'And you, Mother? Who killed you?' (24)Īt Miguel Páramo's funeral, Father Rentería circles the boy's corpse refusing to offer absolution for his sins. He watches her mourn, which she does by spinning in a circle while crying. His mother tells him that his father has died. In Pedro's youth, the young boy is wakened by someone who in tears.

She asks Juan if he has 'ever heard the moan of a dead man', and he answers in the negative (23). The next day, a ranch hand brought her news that Miguel had died and that Pedro (Miguel's father) was requesting her company. Doña Eduviges, who also confesses to Juan she was Miguel's lover, surmised that Miguel must have died and told him so, chiding him for having been so careless with the horse that he had been warned would kill him one day. Shortly thereafter he knocked at her window, and confessed that he could not find his girlfriend's town 'there was nothing there,' only 'a lot of mist or smoke or something' (22). She was alone in bed when she heard the horse gallop towards the Media Luna, and was surprised because Miguel usually spent the night with a woman in a nearby town. After a while, she tells the story of the night Miguel Páramo died. Juan does not believe the sound he heard resembled a horse's gallop, but she ignores him. In Juan's present, he hears a sudden noise, and doña Eduviges tells him it's the sound of Miguel Páramo's horse, which 'roams the countryside, looking for him' (21). Pedro's grandmother finds him daydreaming and demands he work, and when he insists he is not getting paid, she tells him to learn patience in hopes that he can one day be the boss. Back in Pedro's youth, the young boy recalls the last day he saw Susana as he babysits the son of his employer, the local telegraph clerk.

პედრო პარამო by Juan Rulfo