Pedro Paramo
What is Pedro Páramo about? ... Pedro Páramo is about the inescapable flaws of religious devotion combined with this tyrannical local political system, seen by Juan Rulfo, in rural Mexico. The Church’s true role in Pedro Páramo is to confirm the suffering of the people of Comala by giving the false impression that salvation through the Church was possible. ... While living, the residents of Comala are condemned to a virtual purgatorial reality in a land that has been poisoned by Pedro Páramo’s self-indulgence and hatred for all people, save the one true love of his life, Susana San Juan. Pedro Páramo, knowing that salvation will not come from Father Rentería, attempts to find salvation through his love for Susana San Juan, “And—and this was what mattered most—that because of her he would leave this earth illuminated by the image that erased all other memories.” Pedro Páramo and Susana San Juan were both victims of their own obsessive fantasies. Susana San Juan falls into insanity while constantly daydreaming of her first husband, Florencio, who was killed by Pedro Páramo.