WHAT OTHER SAY ABOUT HIM: El Patron is very charismatic, or charming, so he can manipulate people with his power. It is El Patron’s power that enthralls, or traps, Tam Lin, who tells our young hero, Matt, that "El Patron had an instinct for people he could enslave [...] He was such a powerful presence. Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug and people like me crave it." (Farmer, 24, 25). Some say El Patron is like a cat with nine lives, some say he is “[t]he old vampire, who have managed to crawl out of his coffin again and again” (Framer, 99) because he can afford to break the law and get operations like heart and brain transplant from clones.
Narrator’s description about physical traits and personality: imagine a man who have lived over 140 years, imagine what he did looked like… El Patron is an exact representative of that because he is“extremely thin, with shoulder-length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled” (Framer 54) it seems so unreal to anyone that had seen him. Even Matt, “who saw that what he did taken as an empty armchair actually contained a man” (Farmer, 54) due to the fact that El Patron was so reedy he looked like he was part of the armchair he was sitting on.
Character’s own speech & thoughts: El Patron is full of confident but he is self-centered and is an egomaniac. Throughout his life, El Patron had said many times that “I outlived all my enemies. Of course I can always make more enemies […] you could say I’m a cat with nine lives. As long as there’s mice to catch, I intend to keep hunting” , (Framer 101) sometime he is so determined to outlived people and is always thinking about himself, he forgets about the moral of giving back. His ego has taken over him, he said “You can tell how much someone loves you by the size of the present, [...] and he preferred to receive gift, rather than give them.” El Patron has a philosophy that “the flow of wealth should be from outside-in” which make him self-centered and wicked in many ways.
Narrator’s description about physical traits and personality: imagine a man who have lived over 140 years, imagine what he did looked like… El Patron is an exact representative of that because he is“extremely thin, with shoulder-length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled” (Framer 54) it seems so unreal to anyone that had seen him. Even Matt, “who saw that what he did taken as an empty armchair actually contained a man” (Farmer, 54) due to the fact that El Patron was so reedy he looked like he was part of the armchair he was sitting on.
Character’s own speech & thoughts: El Patron is full of confident but he is self-centered and is an egomaniac. Throughout his life, El Patron had said many times that “I outlived all my enemies. Of course I can always make more enemies […] you could say I’m a cat with nine lives. As long as there’s mice to catch, I intend to keep hunting” , (Framer 101) sometime he is so determined to outlived people and is always thinking about himself, he forgets about the moral of giving back. His ego has taken over him, he said “You can tell how much someone loves you by the size of the present, [...] and he preferred to receive gift, rather than give them.” El Patron has a philosophy that “the flow of wealth should be from outside-in” which make him self-centered and wicked in many ways.