He spends time with people who raise bulls, he goes to endless fights, he makes sketches of the town, he addresses the odious practice of shaving the bulls’ horns. Michener decides on the very beautiful city of Guanajuato as the location for the novel, except that he will name it Toledo. (Michener never mentions Hemingway, not once, or the earlier impact of “The Sun Also Rises” or “Death in the Afternoon.” It’s as if the idea of bullfighting just came to this author, and maybe it did.) When Michener decided on Mexico for his theme, he and his wife began moseying and gallivanting researching locations, taking pictures of people with great-looking faces, deciding that the structure of the novel would center on a three-day bullfighting festival.
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