They were broke and owed everybody money when his grandfather died. Pedro Páramo was born into a poor farming family. Maybe there's a coffin shortage in this town? In the coffin he finds out the story of Pedro Páramo, his father, by listening to the whispers and echoes of all the other dead people.Īnd Pedro's story goes a little like this: This town just keeps getting more creeptacular by the moment.įinally Juan out-and-out dies of fright and is buried in a coffin along with another woman, Dorotea. They seem to be husband and wife as well as being siblings, which makes dealing with the in-laws that much easier, but dealing with the priest… not so much. Now Juan has really got the creeps, so he takes off and ends up being taken in by a brother and sister who live together, naked, in a dumpy, old house. The only problem ('only problem') is that she disappears into thin air on the street, right after telling him that the town is full of ghosts. He's kind of freaked out, and to make matters worse another old lady shows up, Damiana Cisneros, and takes him to her house. Juan has to sleep on the floor because Eduviges doesn't have a bed for him, and he wakes up in the night to a man screaming. She is an old friend of Juan's mom, but rambles on and on about a lot of crazy stuff. His guide, Abundio, gives him some advice on where to stay before dropping him off, so he goes to find Eduviges' house. When he gets there, he finds a ghost town. However, we'll break it down in chronological order here for you, just 'cause that's the kind of sweethearts we are.įirst off, Juan Preciado's mother dies and makes him promise that he'll go to Comala to meet Pedro Páramo, his father whom he's never met, and make that jerk pay for not taking care of them.īeing a dutiful son (and apparently having nothing better to do) Juan takes off for Comala. This novel takes a lot of twists and turns, and information is revealed little by little in a zig-zagging fashion, with lots of flashbacks and narrator swaps.

Pedro paramo by juan rulfo