![]() ![]() She finds him walking along the road late on a very cold night in a daze brought on by illness. Though much of the story is of Ayah’s reminiscences, its present tense has Ayah searching for Chato. Despite Ayah’s immense sense of devotion to Chato it seems apparent that she sees him as a weak husband and resents him deeply for it. As a result they lost their home when the rancher told Chato he had to be out of the shack by the next afternoon. She took offense at the exploitation Chato endured at the hands of the rancher that employed im, and let him go without hesitation when Chato gets too old to work. ![]() ” Ayah also speaks of her husband’s work (Chato) as a fence mender for a nearby rancher. She did not lie down next to Chato again until many years later when he was sick and shivering and only her body could keep him warm. Then she made a bed for herself where the children slept. These events seem to have severely alienated Ayah towards Chato as well.Įspecially those specifically related to the children as indicated by, “She slept alone on the hill until the middle of November until the first snows came. Later on, when they were brought to visit, it was apparent the children were forgetting their customs and language further evidence of the completeness of her loss. ![]()
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