Don Serafín Character Analysis

Cléofilas’s father in “Woman Hollering Creek,” who immediately intuits that her marriage to Juan Pedro will only end in despair. When Juan Pedro asks Don Serafín for his daughter’s hand, he predicts that Cleófilas will soon return to Mexico wishing she’d never left with this man. As she leaves, Don Serafín looks her in the eye and tells her, “I am your father, I will never abandon you.”