The Colonel is renowned to the people of the town as a figure of fear and danger, it isn’t, however, until Belisa, a commoner, meets him, that the public gets their first look at the rather vulnerable colonel. The author describes the voice of the raging colonel to be “soft and well-modulated” (4) like that of a professor, someone who is well educated and cultured, ironically contradicting his merciless and illiterate nature. Although a man of such power, his presence in front of Belisa is noted to be that of “the loneliest man” (4). He expresses his discontent of being the “terror he saw in people’s eyes” (4), and expresses his desire to bring out the unseen gentleness in him and for decent public respect. The story sets his character to
