Rulfo has been compared to many great authors in history. The earliest comparison is to James Joyce. James Joyce was a writer and narrator. He wrote many works about power, death, and violence. Joyce greatly influenced the writings of Rulfo. I think Rulfo is an older man. He has extremely negative and misogynistic feelings towards women. The family is mostly like poor and doesn't have much. There is only one cow for the family. In spanish, tacha means a blemish, flaw, defect, an imperfection. In the story, the important animal is a cow. The cow is so important because the cow is what will allow her to find a man and get married. Without the cow, no man will ever love the daughter. The cow is name la serpienta. At the end of the story, the cow dies and Tacha is crying and laying on the cow. The death of the cow means that no one will ever want to be with Tacha because she has nothing to offer the man. The father is frightful for Tacha because he thinks he will now become like the rest of the daughters who are prostitutes.