He Stood And Crossed The Road Analysis

Pages 300 and 301 uses diction to develop the plot of the story, with, “He stood and crossed the road and walked up into the cemetery past the old stonework crypt ad past the little headstones and their small remembrances, the sunfaded paper flowers, a china vase, a broken celluloid Virgin. The names he know or had known. Villareal, Sosa, Reyes. Jesusita Holguín. Nació. Falleció. A china crane. A chipped milkglass vase. The rolling parklands beyond, wind in the cedars. Armendares. Ornelos. Tiodosa Tarín, Salomer Jáquez. Epitacio Villareal Cuéllar.” John Grady is shown to have lost many people in his lifetime, with many of them being buried in this graveyard. The tone is somber and tired, as can be seen with the phrases, “old