

When he was about to die, he told her that his last wish was for him to go to the town of Comala to meet his father: Pedro Páramo. Juan Preciado saw his mother Dolores die in a hospital. What had happened to Juan Preciado’s mother?

Juan Preciado in Comala When Juan Preciado arrives in Comala, he discovers that his father is dead and, along with him, practically the whole town has died, evidence that there is nothing left of the vivacious Comala that his mother longed for so much. Comala is a dead town that lives in a non-time, suspended, inert, its inhabitants have no external existence, they depend on Pedro Páramo to be, they are mentally alienated since all their memories revolve around the cacique, that «living grudge» on whom they depended in life (socially and economically alienated).
