Ending

Pedro Páramo sits in his equipal jalisciense (a traditional leather chair from the Mexican state of Jalisco) at the front gates of his hacienda, his gaze desolate, lost on the horizon. The loyal Damiana is at his side. Down the road comes the pitiful wailing of a drunk man—it's Abundio, the unacknowledged son, who comes in his drunkenness to ask for money to bury his wife who has just died. Pedro, indifferent to his grief, refuses. Abundio lunges at him and stabs him repeatedly, while Damiana is unable to intervene. Perhaps the refusal unleashed in Abundio the "living grudge" of his father—the very expression he used to describe the landowner at the beginning of the story when Juan Preciado asked him who Pedro Páramo was.

Pedro Páramo has lost his bearing. He wears simpler clothes: an overcoat woven on a colonial loom that protects him from the cold, beneath which shows a cotton shirt in blue that evokes his longing for Susana.

Damiana's outfit, keeping to her palette, varies in the tone of her skirt, also loom-woven, which here takes on the color of Rulfo's depiction of Comala: a "heap of stones."

Abundio wears cotton muslin pants and shirt, a palm hat, and an ixtle satchel (a traditional Mexican fiber made from agave); he is dressed like the peasants of that era.