This section in All the Pretty Horses reveals the true cowboys within John Grady and Rawlins. The boys are employed at a ranch and are required to "break" the horses by wrangling them. John Grady proves to be highly effective at this, and thus impresses the manager of the establishment. Along with their newly found jobs, the boys find some spirituality:
"...if a person understood the soul of a horse then he would understand all horses that ever were."
A love interest also appears in this section for John Grady. Alejandra and John dance and then go walking together. It's fairly apparent that John is attracted to Alejandra because he flatters her in regards to how "pretty" she is.
In all probability, there will be more romance between Alejandra and John, but this begs the question: Is John Grady still a frontier hero? Aren't these heroes supposed to be independent and not chained by love, but rather freed through violence? I suppose we shall see.
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