Pedro Páramo, pages 75 - 85 Summary

The point of view changes to Susana, lying in her mother's bed after her mother's death. She is only remembering, though. Really, she is dead, lying in her own coffin. Susana thinks about her mother's death. The day was so beautiful that she didn't cry or mourn. She celebrated life. No one came to pay their respects to Susana's mother. Susana and her servant Justina had to pay to have her mother buried.

Juan at first thinks the voice is Dorotea, but she tells him it must be Susana, whose mother died of consumption. No one came to pay respects, fearing to catch the disease. They listen for Susana's voice again, but instead they hear a man who was beaten and left maimed by don Pedro after his father's death.

Dorotea tells Juan that don...