Human Nature Pedro Paramo (maybe?)

The way Pedro Paramo is introduced for the first time is quite interesting. The reader is introduced to him only as the father of our main character, Juan Preciado. There is no good or bad connotation associated with his name yet. However, two lines later, Juan’s mother tells him to, “Make him pay, son,” (Rulfo 1). This associates Pedro Paramo with negative feelings.

                Even after hearing negative things about him, Juan still goes to Comala. He fill himself with a false hope of a life with his father, even though he knows that Pedro is a bad guy who took advantage of his mother. This could be a statement that the author, Juan Rulfo, could be trying to make about human nature. We tend to fill ourselves with hope, even in the most hopeless circumstances, only to be crushed in the end.