The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Michael Lampasona

This story begins at a bar, with the patrons doing the tango. A man called the Yardmaster walks in, and he is heckled and shoved by all the bar patrons. He walks straight up to a man Rosendo, and challenges him to a knife fight. Rosendo denies him, and even when given his knife, Rosendo declines. He throws his knife out the window, and looks like a coward because of this. Yardmaster leaves with a woman, La Lujanera, after Rosendo backs out of the challenge. However, he shows up at the bar later that night with a fatal stab wound, and the culprit remains unknown.

I thought this story was well written and captivating. I believe that La Lujanera stabbed the Yardmaster, because she was the one who left with him and she made sure to make a quick disappearance after the Yardmaster had been stabbed and killed.

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