Act 2 Scene 6

1.) Overall Impression: I found this section to be confusing because I thought that El Pachuco was in Henry's mind, when I read that he had gotten beat, it did'nt make sence to me. But overall it was a good scene since it allows the Pachuco to uncover some of the main points of the press.

2.)Act 2 Scene 6 pgs 80-81

"Press: Don't you know there's a war on? Don't you fucking well know you can't get away with that shit? What are we fighting for if not to annihilate the enemies of the American way of life?"
This was the press arguing with El Pachuco. This statement is strange considering the fact that there are two wars going on in the country. One against the Zoot suiters and the other in Vietnam. Its quite ironic since either war can be seen as a threat to the American way of life. Either way it goes, its racist, and it lets Henry see that the country he is fighting for, does'nt even want him around.

3.) Why is it that El Pachuco argues with the press when he's supposed to be a figure of Henry's imagination?

and Pg 81
"He turns and looks at Henry, with mystic intensity, he opens his arms, as an Aztec conch blows, and he slowly exits backward with powerful calm into the shadows"
These are stage directions, but before this had happened El Pachuco had been srtripped of his zoot suit. I believe that this has symblic meaning because he was torn from his culture (the zoot suiter) just as the Aztecs were, El pachuco was trying to make Henry see that that history was repeating itself and that he should'nt let that happen and help his culture live.

I posted the quote above because it had symbolic meaning and i like that way that they arranged this, with el pachuco being stripped to his being compared to the Aztec culture.