The stories about the Mountain
Girls, after reading all of them, seemed kind of the same, but at the same time
they were all different. All of the different mountain girls this priest
encountered did end up helping him out, but for a price—he gave one jewelry,
and even married another. What I thought was interesting about all these girls
was that they’re described as a bit frightening and menacing, at the worst
seeming more barbaric, but once they know that they’ll be repaid in some way,
after talking to the priest, they help him on his way. Although the mountain
girls certainly know what they’re doing and what they want to happen, the
priest is a little ignorant upon meeting up with them, and just wants to keep
going on his way.
In meeting the mountain girls, every
single time it’s lead up to by the priest saying he had stayed somewhere or
something had happened that caused him to lose a bunch of money and all his
food; he would have basically nothing with him upon meeting the mountain girls,
and he’s forced to rely on them for help. I also found it interesting that even
though this guy is a priest and supposed to be understanding and helpful, or at
least more adhering to his duties as a priest by not spending his money on
frivolous things and sometimes sleeping with random mountain girls, he deceives
one of the girls (the one he marries). His journeys through the mountains and
with these girls are like him coming face to face with, literally, the uglier
parts of life or those things that we know aren’t good and are wary of—whenever
we meet one of the mountain girls, at least in the first few, there’s definitely
a quiet sense of wariness and a little malice on their part—but still have to
overcome and try to deal with the right ways.
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