Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality

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care of you."(81) Chee cared and respected the land and in
turn the land gave him food for which he would to barter back Little One
from Old Man Fat. Chee treats the land as an equal. "he felt so strongly
that just now this was something between himself and the land."(82) Chee
treats the land as an equal, respects it and it respects him by giving him
the food he needs. Where he lives is pure and real, like the earth.
The setting Old Man Fat chooses to live in reflects his
personality and values. Old Man Fat owns a small store one the side of the
highway that disregards some Navaho customs and beliefs. He does this by
flaunting "...pseudo-Navajo designs on the roof."(78) This is very
disrespectful to his tribe. He does not even try to find some real Navajo
symbols with real meaning. Another way Old Man Fat's values are portrayed
in his setting is how he has a "garish blue door which faced north to the
highway."(78) Navajo Indians face their hogans, homes, to the east so that
they ...

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