Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Characters
Use the table to add and make notes on new characters appearing between pages 71 and the end.
No. / Character / Position / relationship(s) / Page1 / Santiago Nasar / The murdered twenty-one year old. / 1
2 / Narrator / Old school friend of the deceased and chronicler of events 27 years later. / 1
3 / Plácida Linero / Santiago Nasar’s mother. / 1
4 / Maria Alejandrina Cervantes / Town prostitute; lover of many of the men. / 3
5 / Bishop / Unnamed; distant and superior. Does not even enter the town but ‘blesses’ it mechanically. / 3
6 / Victoria Guzmán / Santiago Nasar’s cook (and previous lover to his deceased father). / 7
7 / Divina Flor / Victoria Guzmán’s daughter. Santiago Nasar takes a possessive and aggressive sexual interest in her. / 7
8 / Ibrahim Nasar / Santiago Nasar’s (now deceased) father; an Arab who came to the town and built his own house, then married P.Linero. / 8
9 / Investigating judge / An otherwise unnamed character. Consider the contrast between his original approach to ‘investigating’ and writing a report and the narrator’s later ‘chronicling’ of events. / 10
10 / Clotilde Armenta / The milk shop owner; married to Don Rogelio de la Flor (who appears later). / 13
11 / Pedro Vicario / The younger of the two twins; he is the more dominant of the two and is hardened from military service. Suffers from blennorrhagia (see pg. 60) / 14
12 / Pablo Vicario / The elder and less dominate twin. / 14
13 / Father Carmen Amador / The town’s priest (presumably Catholic). / 16
14 / Margot / Narrator’s sister / 16
15 / Cristo Bedoya / A young man who was part of the quartet (Santiago, narrator and his brother) who grew up together. / 16
16 / Flora Miguel / Santiago Nasar’s fiancée. Not much detail provided until close to the end of the book (see pages 112 onwards) when it is revealed that she and her family were among the last to see him before his death. / 17
17 / Don Lázaro Aponte / 18
18 / Angela Vicario / The rejected bride and sister of Pedro and Pablo. She is also later revealed to be the narrator’s cousin (see pg. 31) / 20
19 / Narrator’s father / Unnamed as yet. / 21
20 / Narrator’s mother Luisa Santiaga (not named until page 23) / Narrator’s mother and godmother of Santiago Nasar / 21
21 / Jamie / Narrator’s brother / 22
22 / Bayardo San Román / Groom to the bride Angela Vicario; an outsider in the town with mysterious or even dubious intentions. / 24
23 / Magdalena Oliver / 25
24 / Poncio Vicario / Angela Vicario’s father. He is blind. / 30
25 / Purisima del Carmen / Angela Vicario’s mother. / 30
26 / Mercedes Barcha / Only briefly mentioned here when commenting on Purisima, presumably in interview with the narrator. See also page 43. / 30
27 / Two oldest daughters / Unnamed at this stage and married off before Angela. / 30
28 / Alberta Simonds / Bayardo’s mother; described as a ‘big mulatto woman’ from Curacao’. / 32
29 / Bayardo’s two sisters / Unnamed at this stage; compared to ‘two restless fillies’. / 33
30 / Colonel Petronio San Román / Bayardo’s father; hailed as ‘the main attraction’ when the family arrive in town. He reinforces the power and status of Bayardo: ‘all he had to do was appear on the running board for everyone to realize that Bayardo San Román was going to marry whomever he chose.’ / 33
31 / Widower Xius / Usually referred to in this manner; clearly a character for whom the reader is to feel some sympathy. / 34
32 / Dr. Dionisio Iguarán / Later revealed to be the narrator’s second cousin (his mother’s cousin). / 36
33 / Luis Enrique / Narrator’s other brother. / 41
34 / Faustino Santos / “A butcher friend” / 51
35 / Leonardo Pornoy / Local policeman. / 53
36 / Don Rogelio de la Flor / Clotilde Armenta’s husand. He runs the bar by night which also serves as the milk shop by day, run by C.A. / 53
37 / Mayor Colonel Lázaro Aponte / Mayor of the town and another interesting ‘snapshot’ of an authoritative character who failed to use his authority. / 55
38 / Mayor’s wife / Unnamed at this stage. / 55
39 / Hortensia Baute / 62
40 / Prudencia Cotes / Pablo Vicario’s fiancée. / 62
41 / Prudencia Cotes’ mother / Unnamed at this stage. / 62
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