Who is Poncho the Monkey

Poncho is a pet monkey owned by the American LaDues, and he symbolizes the Americans’ blindness to the destruction and oppression that they create in Cuba. While Mrs. LaDue finds Poncho cute, Everly is horrified when she meets the monkey. “He blinked just like people blinked, and let her know with his bloodshot eyes that he was suffering from boredom, like a person might suffer from boredom” (93).