![]() ![]() Though she owns the ranch, she is an aspiring actress and allusions to her career imply that she doesn't spend most of her time in San Angelo. John Grady resents his mother, but the conversations dances cryptically around the reasons. John Grady's parents no longer speak to each other, but we learn more about each of their characters in the course of interacting with their son. Now 1949, his grandfather's death means the Grady name is buried with him - he had only one child, John Grady's mother. ![]() All the Pretty Horses opens with sixteen year-old Grady mourning the death of his mother's father, contemplating the fate of the ranch he has lived on his whole life and will soon leave.īuilt in 1872, the ranch belonged to his grandfather only because all the other seven Grady boys died before the age of twenty-five. "You never combed your hair that way in your life," muses John Grady Cole as he looks upon his grandfather's body in the funeral cloth. ![]()
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