Ultimately, the speaker die in despair.
After the traumatic experience, the speaker killed the perpetrator, an Anglo miner. On the same day, she was sentenced to death. The crime is a justifiable self- defense, but she was found guilty. The speaker feels alone and powerless because no one stood up for her. All the men who watch her execution simply toss coins in the river (6-9). Imagine an elderly woman fell and left lying on the ground as passerby ignored her cries for help. In comparison, the men who toss the coins into the river is the bystanders who didn’t want to help the elderly woman. The lack of compassion that bystanders show causes both the speaker and the elderly woman to feel disappointed in human nature. First, it is important to know that the Mexican- Americans were being look down upon by