In the opening, Bowles focuses a lot on the setting of the story. He has set the story outside the country which the town people call "the Inferno because the heat is so intense in the village. He says the place is shadowless and dusty, and even described how the clouds shrank upwards to their farthest positions possible.
I think the village may be very small which is why Jacinto knew the new faces who got off the train which is why there was a lot of emphasis on the setting and his fixation on particular faces. Towards the end Jacinto's behavior takes a whole new turn as he approached the lady he later raped under Gods oath after threatening her about killing her friend. The beginning and end of this story mentions the cemetery as well.
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
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