Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.

Answer 1

They ask the priest to sprinkle holy water on the grave so the old man’s spirit will make it rain.

When the priest is asked to home to the burial with the holy water, the priest initially refuses since the family did not ask him to say the funeral rites or have Mass. Leon, who comes to get the priest says, "we just want him to have plenty of water." Then the last line of the story says, "he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water; now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure." From this we can infer that the people expect Teofilo to make it rain now that he has died. This also connects with the title of the story.

Answer 2

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