Similarly to Xius' death, Santiago's death is a result of the division of social classes. Before his death, Pedro and Pablo go to a milk store, across from Santiago's house, owned by Clotide Armenta. By this time, she thought, "it was impossible ... that they didn't know in the house across the way," (Márquez, 58). Although Santiago does not know the twins are going to kill him, this communicates how everyone else in the town knows. One of the people who is told is Faustino Santos, and he "was the only one who perceived a glimmer of truth in Pablo Vicario's threat and he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first," (Márquez 52-53). This illustrates how the division
