"Three Hundred Pesos:" Story Analysis

"Three Hundred Pesos:" Story Analysis 

Author’s Biography: Manuela Williams Crosno (1905-1977)

Manuela Williams Crosno was an English teacher who spent most of her life as a resident of New Mexico. Interested in Hispanic-American culture, she set her many short stories, poems, and illustrations. Many of these works were published in two collections.

ABOUT THE STORY

The “Three Hundred Pesos” tells the story of a family, in which one of the three brothers really needed help to take care of his child who was pretty sick, another brother who was able to help Anastacion out lending him some a little money, but still didn’t want to do it becasuse nothing was more important than money for him and the other one was Berta, she was different, she wanted to help him, she knew Anastacio was not a good brother or human being either way.

CHARACTERES:

Anastacio is the main character, he’s the typical person who doesn’t think about anyone, but himself, he didn’t care about the pain his own brother was going through, the only one thing that did matter for him was money, so into it that didn’t realize how important was that peso for his brother.

Bertha is Anastacio´s sister, she had a different perspective of life, she helped Emilio at the same time she was able to see the kind of brother they had, she was a way better person that him.

Emilio is Anastacio´s brother, he was pretty much like Berta, but he had no money, he was the one with the toughest situation, with a sick kid and no money to help him out, a pretty honest man.

  MORAL OF THE STORY

The Three Hundred Pesos story tells us that there are more important things in life that money, if you don’t care about anything, but money soon you will have no one there for you, money doesn’t mean anything if you don’t use it to help your family!

My Opinion 

I didn’t like the story at all, I come from a very small family, since a was very young I was taught to help whoever needs help, I hated the fact that Anastacio is more into money than helping his own family, at the end of the day they are all we have.