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Father Rentería
Ana is Father Rentería’s niece. After Miguel Páramo kills Ana’s father, he visits her under the pretext of apologizing. But instead of issuing her an apology, he climbs through her window and brutally rapes her. When she recounts these events in detail to Father Rentería, though, he questions her experience in order to soothe his own conscience. Because of her suffering at Miguel’s hands, Ana comes to embody both the violence of the Paramo family’s patriarchy and the profound guilt that Father Rentería feels for constantly enabling and defending the Páramos.
Ana Quotes in Pedro Páramo
The Pedro Páramo quotes below are all either spoken by Ana or refer to Ana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Fragments 13-23, Pages 25-41
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Shooting stars. One by one, the lights in Comala went out.
Then the sky took over the night.
Father Renteria tossed and turned in his bed, unable to sleep.
It’s all my fault, he told himself. Everything that’s happening. Because I’m afraid to offend the people who provide for me. It’s true; I owe them my livelihood. I get nothing from the poor and God knows prayers don’t fill a stomach. That’s how it’s been up to now. And we’re seeing the consequences. All my fault. I have betrayed those who love me and who have put their faith in me and come to me to intercede on their behalf with God. What has their faith won them? Heaven? Or the purification of their souls?
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Ana Quotes in Pedro Páramo
The Pedro Páramo quotes below are all either spoken by Ana or refer to Ana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Fragments 13-23, Pages 25-41
Quotes
Shooting stars. One by one, the lights in Comala went out.
Then the sky took over the night.
Father Renteria tossed and turned in his bed, unable to sleep.
It’s all my fault, he told himself. Everything that’s happening. Because I’m afraid to offend the people who provide for me. It’s true; I owe them my livelihood. I get nothing from the poor and God knows prayers don’t fill a stomach. That’s how it’s been up to now. And we’re seeing the consequences. All my fault. I have betrayed those who love me and who have put their faith in me and come to me to intercede on their behalf with God. What has their faith won them? Heaven? Or the purification of their souls?
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