Under the Sky "beginning"

                Bowles had The setting was in a town(plaza) which was outside the country, he mainly focused on the cemetery and the sky. Bowles would call the town inferno which would help us the readers see how the town was using imagery showing the reader how hot the weather was in the town the people were in a way coming from a low class, people seem to be less intelligent.
                At the end of the story Jacinto had grab the lady that had come with the couple and he took her and threaten her and told her he was going to kill the man who her friend was with, and dragged her to the park. He had raped the lady to save his friend's life. I think he did this because he didn't want to feel alone and she was the one who paid attention to him in the beginning when she first got off the train with her two friends. What I didn't understand was why the old lady at the end says that he has lost his mother, was it that Jacinto's mother passed away and that's why he was sobbing or was this lady completely crazy, he does mention in the story that everyone there is crazy or have some sort of mental illness.