Read Act II, Scenes One-Five.
Content Summary for Teachers
Act II, Scene One
Act II begins several months after Mario’s going-away party. As Juan is walking by the Valle house, he sees Dolores crouching in the bushes outside her house. She asks him if he can see in the house at night now that Cerezita has requested to be able to keep the shades up to look out the windows. She doesn’t want people to figure out there are no men living in the house.
Dolores goes back inside where Yolanda is trying to feed her baby, Evalina. Concerned, Yolanda tells Dolores that Evalina will not eat and has a slight temperature. At the clinic, they told Yolanda there might be something wrong with her milk...
