RESPONSE TO HUDSON404: I think that the actions of the hotel clerk speak to the directro’s attempt to show that Susan is as unsafe on that side of the border as on the other. It actually seems to me that she gets into much more trouble at the motel, then in Mexico when she willingly goes to Grande’s house and he ensures her that noone is keeping her there, and she may do as she wants.The reading talks about this critique on the border’s state of law.
