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Jimmy Blevins
The owner of the La Purísima hacienda, where John Grady and Rawlins work for several months. Don Hector is impressed by John Grady’s skill with horses, and grants him a special position breeding his horses. He is wealthy, intelligent, and sophisticated, and also seems kind and treats John Grady with respect. However, he conforms strictly to the Mexican ideal of a woman’s honor, and feels no compunction about turning the boys in when he learns of Alejandra’s affair with John Grady.
Don Hector Rocha y Villarreal (the hacendado) Quotes in All the Pretty Horses
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They went to France for their education. He and Gustavo. And others. All these young people. They all returned full of ideas. Full of ideas, and yet there seemed to be no agreement among them. How do you account for that? Their parents sent them for these ideas, no? and they went there and received them. Yet when they returned and opened their valises, so to speak, no two contained the same thing. […] People of my generation are more cautious. I think we dont believe that people can be improved in their character by reason. That seems a very french idea.
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Don Hector Rocha y Villarreal (the hacendado) Character Timeline in All the Pretty Horses
The timeline below shows where the character Don Hector Rocha y Villarreal (the hacendado) appears in All the Pretty Horses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2
...of natural springs and streams packed with wildlife and surrounded by desert. The owner Don Héctor Rocha y Villareal is one of the few hacendados (ranch owners) to actually live on...
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...Grady will surely be worn out, if he ever manages. John Grady says that the hacendado apparently has four hundred horses all over the mountain, having started a breeding program for...
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...end of April, they’ve brought over 80 mares into the trap. On May second, the hacendado returns from Mexico City in his red plane. John Grady comes to the ranch house,...
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Don Héctor asks why John Grady has come to Mexico from Texas. He replies that he and...
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Don Héctor asks where John Grady is from, and he seems to studies John Grady. He asks...
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...one of the new mares in the corral outside the barn. At one point Don Héctor comes outside to watch him. When John Grady is finished, he finds the hacendado in...
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In the next scene, the vaquero Antonio returns from picking up a horse the hacendado had bought unseen from the sales in Lexington, Kentucky. He’d left two months earlier with...
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John Grady asks Don Héctor if he might ride the horse, as he admires it. In the next days, John...
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...for several weeks. Antonio too loves horses, and conspires with John Grady in telling Don Héctor that the horses are more manageable when ridden regularly—John Grady loves riding, and loves when...
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...nine days, Alejandra returns to the city. The next evening, John Grady speaks to the hacendado in the barn, but Don Héctor responds without looking at him. That evening they make...
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As they play, Don Héctor, who wins easily, tells John Grady of the history of Mexico and of Alfonsa and...
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...in the firelight, before vanishing again. Rawlins says the dogs aren’t up here by themselves—Don Héctor may be hunting them.
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Part 3
John Grady says he had asked the officials to wake Don Héctor: they said he’d been awake a long time, and then laughed. He might have betrayed...
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...know anything about Blevins—he just asked to ride with them. They’ve been working for Don Héctor at La Purísima, he says. The captain says Rawlins is the criminal Smith, but John...
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Part 4
...at the gerente’s door. Antonio comes out, saying that Alfonsa is at home, but Don Héctor and his daughter have left for Mexico City. No one knows when they’ll return. John...
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...one is born in a certain country and not another. No one speaks of Don Héctor, Alfonsa, or Alejandra.
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...Alfonsa is in the parlor. She stands formally and with a chilling elegance. Alfonsa says Héctor thought John Grady wouldn’t come back, but she knew he would. He asks for an...
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...lovers if she didn’t stop seeing John Grady, so she told her father herself. Don Héctor had said nothing. John Grady was on the mesa at the time, and when he...
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...the judge said in the court—he doesn’t feel that he was in the right. The hacendado was good to him, he says, but he believes that Don Héctor intended to kill...
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