Selfish or not? (The Power and the Glory pg.140-159).

The priest, like every human has patience until one point. Throughout the story he has tried to help as much people as he can, and he has tried to give mass, and confess people. However, in this last chapter I was able to tell he was getting tired. After being caught, confused with another person, and released again, the priest seems to be, totally exhausted. It is very difficult to tell whether or not the priest is a good person, or a convenient person. In some chapters he helps people. In others he stays in people’s houses without caring if the police comes and kills them the next day.

“He thought: I have to get to shelter- a man’s first duty is to himself- even the Church taught that, in a way. The whole sky was blackening.” (p.155). This quotation shows how the priest tried to think about the woman (Indian) but he couldn’t. He had to think of himself because he was going to die if he kept getting wet. The priest like I said before sometimes thinks about himself only, but he also thinks about others. “ ‘vamos,’ the priest said, but the woman scraped the sugar with her sharp front teeth, paying no attention. He looked up at the sky and saw the evening star bottled out by black clouds. ‘Vamos.’ There was no shelter anywhere on this plateau.” (p.155). He tried so hard to convince the woman to go with him, but she would not go, in this case I support the priest’s decision in leaving her there.

It is very tough to be hiding all the time, and at the same time completing a priest’s duties. I do not always agree with the Priest’s behavior, but I do admire his way of escaping from every situation and at the same time achieving his duties as a priest. Is he a whiskey priest or not?