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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) Quotes in All the Pretty Horses
The All the Pretty Horses quotes below are all either spoken by Don Hector Rocha y Villarreal (the hacendado) or refer to Don Hector Rocha y Villarreal (the hacendado). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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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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