Under the Sky by Paul Bowles Opening

Paul Bowles does a great job of illustrating the setting of this story. I feel as if he wants us to feel like we are there. He also gives us insight into Jacinto's mindset. From the encounter in the plaza with the cigarettes to his frustrated reaction. The fact that he is going to the train station in hopes of bumming spare change off of people getting off the train. He is definitely scoping people out. There is something up with Jacinto.

Jacinto has this growing obsession with  a woman that is staying in this hotel in town. However, he gets to encounter the woman's friend. He begins talking to her, the Yellow haired woman. And then he threatens her and intimidates her into following him to the cemetery. There he rapes her. When he lets her go Jacinto recalls being surprised she didn't ask for any money. This to me showed Jacinto's disconnection with the situation. He rapes this woman and somehow his afterthought sounds like he is under the impression that it was a mutual thing. He just lets her go at the edge of the park.

Then Jacinto returns to the same cemetery a year later where the incident happened. There after a year he recalls the situation and begins to show remorse.