Under The Sky

Bowels starts this story with such imagery, it is easy to picture this hot , bustling town.  Jacinto seems to be a troubling character from the very start.  Bowles portrays him to be a man who his much to himself.  He doesn't like to do as the others do and prefers to be alone.  I think that the encounter he has with the townsman is strange.  He gets so angry about it that he says he wishes he had a gun so he could proclaim that he is the father of everyone.  I don't really understand what that means, but I know it sounds egotistical.  Then, towards the end of the story he startles the girl who comes out of the hotel and kind of demands her to sit near him.  He became aroused by attacking her the way he did.

I don't understand why Jacinto cries at the end of the story.  Bowels creates a similar setting and atmosphere to the day he raped the girl, with the clouds and blowing dust and vultures in the sky.  Then he rolls onto the floor and begins to cry.  I wonder why he was emotional?  There is a part of me that thinks it has nothing to do with feeling remorseful.