Short Story - Summary of Short Story Maria Concepcion by Katherine Anne Porter
Maria
concepcion is the story about the power of a woman.
The woman who got a betrayal forms her husband, Juan Villegas. Maria Concepcion a
happily married young Mexican woman is religious, energetic and shrewd. Her
husband Juan works for givens the archaeologist excavating an ancient site.
When Maria discovers that Juan is unfaithful everything has changed. He joined
army taking his new love a long. Left alone, maria has a baby and dies soon
after birth and Maria withdraws from her neighbors, making the church her only
consolation. Then juan and Maria rosa return. Juan is jailed as a deserter but
Givens has made him released. Maria rosa
has his baby, but Juan spends his time getting drunk. He returns home in a
stupor to sleep but wake up to the realization that Maria concepcion has
murdered her rival. He and the other villagers outwit the gendarmes. Maria
concepcion is free to take Maria rosa’s baby and go back home with her husband.