Now, the rain impoverishes the vendors and oppresses the workers-like Comala itself, it’s doing Pedro Páramo’s bidding. But as Pedro takes control of the town, the rain (like the land it nourishes) becomes a source of oppression, not abundance: on one rainy day, all the townspeople are busy irrigating Pedro’s fields, so nobody buys anything at the market. In Pedro Páramo and Dolores Preciado’s memories, everything grows in Comala because of the constant rain and the fertile soil. Rulfo uses the contrast between the barren Comala of Juan Preciado’s present and the abundant rain of Pedro Páramo’s past in order to mark the jump between their two timelines.įor Comala itself, rain turns from a source of nourishment into an ominous and foreboding force, until it suddenly stops forever, giving way to the harsh winds and eternal drought that make Comala a barren wasteland. Pedro’s first memory, the earliest moment in the novel chronologically, begins with a long description of “water dripping from the roof tiles” after a rainstorm. In the novel, rain represents the freedom, abundance, and harmony that Pedro Páramo gradually destroys as he turns the town’s land from a means of sustaining life into a source of profit and power.
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