- Susana has a conversation with her father, Bartolomé, in which they decide to go back to Comala at Pedro Páramo's request.
- Bartolomé tells his daughter that Pedro has given them his old house, and that he wants Susana as his wife in return.
- There is a strange moment where Bartolomé thinks of himself as a dead miner, and of Susana as an orphan.
- It's hard to say whether he really died in the mines, or whether he just feels dead and is going back to Comala to die.
- The weird mix between life and death continues, because Bartolomé says that Susana is a widow, but still acts like she lives with her husband. Bartolomé is sure that Pedro is pure evil.
- Susana denies that Bartolomé is her father, and he asks her if she's crazy. She says, essentially, "Yup. I'm as nutty as a fruitcake." If only all psychological diagnoses were that easy.