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)
1
2
Santiago Nasar
Narrator
1
1
3
4
5
Plácida Linero
Maria Alejandrina Cervantes
Bishop
6
Victoria Guzmán
7
Divina Flor
8
Ibrahim Nasar
The murdered twenty-one year old.
Old school friend of the deceased and
chronicler of events 27 years later.
Santiago Nasar’s mother.
Town prostitute; lover of many of the men.
Unnamed; distant and superior. Does not
even enter the town but ‘blesses’ it
mechanically.
Santiago Nasar’s cook (and previous lover to
his deceased father).
Victoria Guzmán’s daughter. Santiago Nasar
takes a possessive and aggressive sexual
interest in her.
Santiago Nasar’s (now deceased) father; an
Arab who came to the town and built his own
house, then married P.Linero.
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
13
11
Pedro Vicario
12
13
14
15
Pablo Vicario
Father Carmen Amador
Margot
Cristo Bedoya
16
Flora Miguel
The milk shop owner; married to Don
Rogelio de la Flor (who appears later).
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)
The elder and less dominate twin.
The town’s priest (presumably Catholic).
Narrator’s sister
A young man who was part of the quartet
(Santiago, narrator and his brother) who
grew up together.
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
18
Don Lázaro Aponte
Angela Vicario
19
20
Narrator’s father
Narrator’s mother Luisa Santiaga
(not named until page 23)
Jamie
Bayardo San Román
21
22
The rejected bride and sister of Pedro and
Pablo. She is also later revealed to be the
narrator’s cousin (see pg. 31)
Unnamed as yet.
Narrator’s mother and godmother of
Santiago Nasar
Narrator’s brother
Groom to the bride Angela Vicario; an
outsider in the town with mysterious or even
dubious intentions.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Characters
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25
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Magdalena Oliver
Poncio Vicario
Purisima del Carmen
Mercedes Barcha
27
Two oldest daughters
28
Alberta Simonds
29
Bayardo’s two sisters
30
Colonel Petronio San Román
31
Widower Xius
32
Dr. Dionisio Iguarán
33
34
35
36
Luis Enrique
Faustino Santos
Leonardo Pornoy
Don Rogelio de la Flor
37
Mayor Colonel Lázaro Aponte
38
39
40
41
42
Mayor’s wife
Hortensia Baute
Prudencia Cotes
Prudencia Cotes’ mother
Angela Vicario’s father. He is blind.
Angela Vicario’s mother.
Only briefly mentioned here when
commenting on Purisima, presumably in
interview with the narrator. See also page
43.
Unnamed at this stage and married off
before Angela.
Bayardo’s mother; described as a ‘big
mulatto woman’ from Curacao’.
Unnamed at this stage; compared to ‘two
restless fillies’.
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.’
Usually referred to in this manner; clearly a
character for whom the reader is to feel
some sympathy.
Later revealed to be the narrator’s second
cousin (his mother’s cousin).
Narrator’s other brother.
“A butcher friend”
Local policeman.
Clotilde Armenta’s husand. He runs the bar
by night which also serves as the milk shop
by day, run by C.A.
Mayor of the town and another interesting
‘snapshot’ of an authoritative character who
failed to use his authority.
Unnamed at this stage.
Pablo Vicario’s fiancée.
Unnamed at this stage.
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30
30
30
30
32
33
33
34
36
41
51
53
53
55
55
62
62
62
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