Lourdes In Going South

In the first section of Going South, the narrator focus on portraying Lourdes, who is the older daughter of Celia. She lives in Brooklyn and operates a bakery alone. She has a plain lifestyle, like wearing the same shirt everyday, and she does not care about her appearance so much. She has a daughter named Pilar, who does not play well with her and always refuses to work for her in the bakery. Then she gets a call from a nun who witnesses the death of her father. The nun tells her that her father is fully dressed, covered with holy blue light when he is about dying. Later he thanks the nun for her kindness and leaves by passing the window, without telling anyone where he heads for. Lourdes is stressed about this story. When she is anxious, she has the habit to cook pecan sticky
She gains 118 pounds when her father is having the cobalt treatments. She requires sex too from her husband, but she feels like it is something that he cannot give to her. This time when her father is sentenced being dead, she begins to think about his past. He is a fastidious man, even annoyed by the microbes. He likes clean, and even when he is dead, he is shaved so that he can be happy. When Lourdes is looking for Pilar, she can only find her daughter's picture in third grade. Lourdes thinks that it looks nothing like her daughter. It demonstrates that she does not get on well with her daughter, even has not a recent photo of her. Also, it indicates that her daugher has changed a lot these years, inferring that she might be easy-going and nice to her mother in the past. She remembers how her daughter was born and being treated as “bewitched”. She decides to look for her daughter toward south, and south is also mentioned several times in the book. On the Brooklyn Bridge, Lourdes finds out that everything seems to go south. When her father is dead, he also heads south. It infers that they will go to Cuba eventually to meet their