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In the book, The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes writes about Ambrose Bierce who he portrays as the “old gringo” who journeys through Mexico as he awaits his fate to die. Fuentes depicts him as a fearless brave man who looks at death in the face, but one can argue that the “Old Gringo” is in fact a coward and is trying to live a heroic life to in order to redeem his past. The reader learns from reading that the gringo has failed his family both as a husband and a father. His own daughter vows never to speak to him, “She told me she would never forgive the mortal pain she suffer