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

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take 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 ...

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