Chronicle of a death foretold - Characters

Question 1

Santiago Nasar

Answer 1

The protagonist of the story. He is killed the day after Angela Vicario’s wedding

Question 2

Angela Vicario

Answer 2

The dishonored bride. She becomes a seamstress after being returned home on her wedding night. She was very beautiful in her youth.

Question 3

Pedro Vicario

Answer 3

The more serious of the two twins. It is his idea to kill Santiago Nasar. He spent time in the army, and after being released from prison he joins the army once again.

Question 4

Pablo Vicario

Answer 4

He is the twin who insists that the twins go through with the crime. He is betrothed to Prudencia Cotes, who he marries when he is released from jail.

Question 5

Bayardo San Roman

Answer 5

The man who marries Angela Vicario. He comes from a wealthy and prestigious family. When he arrives in town, he is described as having a slim waist and golden eyes

Question 6

Purisima Del Carmen

Answer 6

The mother of Angela Vicario. When her daughter is brought home by Bayardo San Roman, after he discovers she is not a virgin, Purisima beats her daughter; she is a strict mother.

Question 7

Poncio Vicario

Answer 7

He is Angela’s father. He used to work as a goldsmith until the strain of the profession made him go blind. He dies shortly after his twin sons are sent to prison.

Question 8

Placida Linero

Answer 8

Santiago’s mother. She has a well-earned reputation as an interpreter of dreams. She never forgives herself for misinterpreting the dream about trees and birds that her son had the night before his death.

Question 9

Maria Alejandrina Cervantes

Answer 9

An elegant whore with eyes like an “insomniac leopard.” She eats excessively to mourn Santiago Nasar’s death.

Question 10

Prudencia Cotes

Answer 10

Pablo Vicario’s finance. She says she would not have married Pablo if he had not upheld the honor of his sister by killing the man who took her virginity.

Question 11

Ibrahim Nasar

Answer 11

Santiago’s father, an Arab. He seduced Victoria Guzman when she was a teenager. He taught his son the art of falconry and his love of firearms.

Question 12

Victoria Guzman

Answer 12

The Nasars’ cook. She violently guts rabbits on the morning of the murder. She had an affair with Ibrahim Nasar when she was a teenager.

Question 13

Clothilde Armenta

Answer 13

The proprietress of the milk shop where the Vicarios wait to kill Santiago. She is an insightful woman, and can tell that the Vicario twins are tired and are killing Santiago only out of obligation.

Question 14

Don Rogelio De La Flor

Answer 14

Clothilde Armenta’s husband. He doesn’t listen to her when she warns him about the Vicario twins’ plan. He dies of shock at age eighty-six when he sees the brutal way that the Vicarios murder Santiago.

Question 15

Divina Flor

Answer 15

Victoria Guzman’s daughter. Santiago desires her sexually, but Victoria watches carefully to make sure he does not do anything to her.

Question 16

Margot

Answer 16

The narrator’s sister. She feels that Santiago Nasar would be a good catch for any girl, since he is young, handsome, and wealthy.

Question 17

Cristo Bedoya

Answer 17

A friend of the narrator’s and of Santiago Nasar. He runs all over town at the end of the book trying to warn Santiago of the Vicario’s plan.

Question 18

Luis Enrique

Answer 18

The narrator’s younger brother. He plays the guitar very well, and goes around with Santiago, Cristo, and the narrator when they go to serenade Bayardo and Angela on the night of their wedding.

Question 19

Father Amador

Answer 19

The local priest, who forgets to warn Santiago Nasar about the plot against him.

Question 20

Colonel Lazaro Aponte

Answer 20

The lazy Colonel who fails to prevent Santiago’s murder because he is checking on his game of dominoes.

Question 21

Faustino Santos

Answer 21

The local butcher who alerts a local police officer that the Vicario brothers are talking about murdering Santiago.

Question 22

General Petronio San Roman And Alberta Simonds

Answer 22

Bayardo San Roman’s parents. Alberta Simonds used to be the extremely beautiful; General Petronio San Roman and she drive up in a model T Ford. The General is impressively bedecked with war medals.

Question 23

Yamil Shaium

Answer 23

An Arab man who warns Cristo Bedoya about the Viacrio twins’ plan to murder Santiago. He and Santiago have an Arabic play on words that they exchange whenever they meet.

Question 24

Flora Miguel

Answer 24

The pretty, but uninteresting woman that Santiago Nasar was betrothed to marry.

Question 25

Nahir Miguel

Answer 25

The father of Flora Miguel. He is the one who warns Santiago that the Vicario brothers are waiting to kill him.

Question 26

Xius

Answer 26

A widower who owned the most beautiful house; he died of sadness because he sold it; the house held all of his dead wife’s possessions.

Question 27

Mercedes Barcha

Answer 27

The narrator’s eventual wife (and the name of Gabriel García Márquez’s real wife). The narrator proposes to her at Angela and Bayardo’s wedding party.