are present through out Antonio's development. Ramon Saldivar does an extensive
             study of Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, and as well as Shirley and Shirley, he seems
             to be afraid of calling or recognizing a representation of a border culture.
             Bless Me, Ultima thus can be said to capture in the form of romance
             critical and complex transition period in literary-cultural history of the South
             west: the simultaneous existence within Chicano communities of pre-Columbian
             myths, beliefs, legends and superstitions, and mid-twentieth century
             technological, literate mass media culture. (Saldivar, 108).
             As I mention before, Bless Me Ultima presents the struggle between two
             different life styles and cultures. On one hand, we have the Mexican
             traditional life style: Antonio's father was a men of the llano, a vaquero; his
             mother is from a family of free farmers. On the other hand, we find a very
             strong influence of American individualism. We see this influence in Antonio's
             three brothers: after they returned from W.W.II, their parents are hoping that
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