th life. She could not weep for the rest of her life. She had a child she had to think of and one on the way and in order to survive she had to remarry one-day (p.197). Dying and death had become a part of everyday community life. They had seen many die before and it was a process in which all had to deal with one day. This was an understanding that these families came to grip with when they were young.Honor and dignity was imbedded in everyone in the family. Juan told Dona Guadalupe and Dona Manza (Dona Guadalupe's bestfriend) about the time his father sold their goats to a shrewd businessman. When Don Juan got back home, Dona Margarita told him to go and ask him for his goat's back. He said to her, "No Villasenor has gone back on his word in five hundred years" (p.383). He had so much honor in his business transaction that he could not ask for his goats back. If he did he would be going against all he was taught by his parents. He had so honor and dignity in his families name that he could not ask for his goat's back. Being a Villasenor to him was like being a Kennedy today. There was no greater honor.Everyone faced some kind of discrimination and prejudice. Being a Mexican was a hard thing to be when you were surrounded by a great majority of Anglo-Americans. When Juan returned from Montana to his mother's house he went to a caf in town. Juan had sat down and ate and was beginning to smoke a cigar when the cook told him this:"Excuse me,but you see, my waitress, she's new and so she didn't know that we can't serve Mexicans.I live just around the back with my family and to my home you're welcome anytime. But here, you know ho it is; I have to stay in business, so I'm going to have to ask you to leave (p.231)."Juan was good enough to go to the man's home, but not good enough to eat in his restaurant. This was only situation that Juan had encountered. Another time Juan was setting up his distillery in an Anglo community...
