Why doesn't Don Anselmo reveal who "owns" the trees on his first visit to the lawyer's office? Was he being clever, or was he unware of the potential problem? Explain.
I understand this story in a way that I think the one minor messenge I can pull out from it is Americans are some mean people and destroy the peace of the village. Therefore, we can guess that Don Anselmo could be a little tricky when he didn't reveal that the trees weren't "owned" by him. He sold his lands cheap in order to attract the investors and then, turned out, the trees problem caused the investors more money and the land was not a big bargain as they thought at first. He might know that the Americans didn't know about his Río en Medio culture and to take advantages of it, he trick the Americans to pay more money for his children in the village.
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