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Except for a sliver of third person narration at the story’s center, “Paso del Norte” consists entirely of dialog. The story begins with a conversation between a son and his father: “I’m going a long way off, Father, that’s why I’ve come to let you know.” The father asks the son where he is headed and learns his destination is “up North.” The son’s pig-buying business has failed and his family is starving, in contrast with his father.
The son says the father can’t understand his family’s suffering because he sells “skyrockets and firecrackers and gun powder” which are popular whenever there are holiday celebrations. The business in pigs is more seasonal and therefore less successful.
The father asks his son what he will do up North and the son responds that he doesn’t have an exact idea except that Carmelo came back from there rich and brought a phonograph that plays music.
He charges money for each song and people line up to listen: “So you see, you just have to go and co