We have been told that Mrs Gould achieved the "conquest of Sulaco" ,
and as a conqueror she receives a symbolic horse. Hers is small and attractive,
like her method of conquest, but make no mistake: she rides "in the center"
(i.e., as the all-important moral voice) of the nascent, armed power of the San
Tomé mine, here setting out to conquer its first group of laborers.