The Rain Tortilla Curtain Analysis

The ending of this story really left me on my toes. Throughout the story we see the views Delaney has on immigration change. At the beginning he seems to be in favor of immigration. He believes that everyone should have the chance to live life. As the novel moves along, Delaney has some conflicts with Mexicans that perhaps made him have a change in thought. He went from having a complete left view to a far right view. Once he hit Candido with his car his views began to change tremendously. All of the problems that Delaney has later on in the story, causes him to be very much stuck on who he believes caused the crime. He looks past who actually commits the crime. Delaney is then so fixed on who he believes did this that he goes out of his way …show more content…
They lived in a very small shack out in the wilderness. Of course with Delaney being the nature man that he was, he was very familiar with the area. He finds the shack that Candido and his family are in. Candido is in complete shock because he was not expecting a gun to be pointed like so at himself and his family. As Delaney sits there pointing the gun at the family, he begins to feel as he describes in the book on page 362, “a monstrous uncontainable force.” As they are all about to be swept away by this massive mudslide. Delaney notices Candido’s family, he instantly notices as stated on page 363 “how he was drawn closer to that cold black working heart of the world than he’d ever dreamed possible.” I think at this moment Delaney realizes what he has become. Candido was only trying to provide the ultimate best lives for his family. At the moment they were swept away Candido thinks of how horribly wrong his life was going. Nothing could ever go right with the life he was trying to create. At the moment Candido was able to reach his wife, they soon realized their baby was missing. With know time to think about anything Candido was only reacting to the …show more content…
I think that the moment where he grabs for his hand, Delaney has a change in heart. That is what I hope happens at least. I am hoping he regrets all of the hatred he had towards Mexicans. The ending was able to show that the feelings Delaney had towards immigration at the beginning, may be more true than he believed. Candido was trying the best with what he had. He may have made some mistakes along the way but he knows those were honest mistakes. He was just trying to live life to the fullest. The ending left me feeling hopeful. I was first hoping that they could somehow find their baby. Reading the part on page 366 where they realize they have lost their baby and without second thought Candido still grabs for Delaney’s hand, left me feeling astonished. In the moment of tragedy where Candido was feeling lost and numb, he still had the heart to give a hand to someone who has caused so much trouble in his life. It makes me feel good that there are people out in this world who are able to see the light in people even if those people have only shown their