Pedro Paramo

That night, the couple exits and leaves Juan alone. He is not alone for long; an elderly woman with wrinkled skin enters and takes sheets from beneath the bed. She offers Juan some tea, as he seems agitated. Juan recognizes the old woman but does not say her name. The woman’s husband enters. Juan speaks to him about the ghostly voices in Comala. The man complains that Juan talks as though he is a “mystic” (59) and recommends that they leave. He is worried that Juan is trying to scam them, just as a man from the Media Luna ranch once did.

The next afternoon, Juan feels better. Time begins to blur as he stares at the night sky of the previous evening and then reunites with Dona Eduviges and Abundio Martinez. Juan wakes up. He is in bed beside Donis’s wife, who has no clothes on. She says that Donis has left and may never return, as Juan is now able to take care of her. She explains that the elderly woman from the previous night was her sister.

Juan has a conversation with his mother. He asks whether she can hear him. He explains that he is in Comala but she complains that she cannot see him.