The Power and the glory: The capital

As the second chapter of the book starts, I see a drastic change in the plot and the direction of the book. There is a complete change in setting, characters and even theme of the book because we now are reading about a lieutenant, in a police station. In the context of the book, there is another character that is "el jefe". He tells the lieutenant that there is still priest of the catholic faith, and that this is not permitted and he reacts. " Something you could almost have called horror moved him when he looked at the white muslin dresses" (pg. 22). He seems to have somehting against them and he feels rage to know that there are still priests out there. "And that was easy, the lieutenant thought, easy. Himself he felt no need of women. He said, "We will catch him. It is only a question of time."" (pg. 23). He seems to be desperate for the clandestinity of this so called whisky priest.

As they talk about the Whisky priest and the connection with the boy and her mother, we see another clue of why could the priest be the stranger that was drinking with Mr. Tench. The boy, is very intrigued about what is happening and about the story his mother told him about the persecution of priests. "But the boy - he asks such questions - about the whisky priest. I wish we had never had him in the house." (pg. 27). This gives more power to the movement against religion that the government has. We see a very similar case. The case of Padre Jose. He once was a priest and when the law against them was ordered, he abandoned priesthood and got maried. He is seen as a nameless priest with shame of abandoning what he really believed in. "An old man who married was grotesque enough, but an old priest.... He stood outside himself and wondered whether he was even fit for hell" (pg. 29). This new topics and characters make the story more interesting becasue now I think that the climax will be the inifying of all of this situations. I will be looking forward to it.