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Bless Me, Ultima In Rodolfo Anaya's novel, Bless Me, Ultima the author uses different settings in order to develop Antonio's sense of good and evil. An example of this would be Rosie's, the local whorehouse. To Antonio, Rosie's tempted his brothers and was the cause of their sins. In one of Antonio's dreams, three figures "silently beckoned" (pg. 65) Antonio into the "house of the sinful women" (pg. 156). Antonio saw his brothers entering and he told …

…suffered through. Without the different settings mentioned throughout the book, Tony's sense of good and evil would not have been able to develop. This is because for one to be able to differentiate between good and evil, especially one so young, one must first learn how to do so, and in order to learn to do such, one must experience both aspects of good and aspects of evil, which is exactly what happened to Antonio.