Angela Vicario is described as “the most beautiful of her four sisters” when she was a young child. However, the narrator says she had a "helpless air” and a “poverty of spirit that augured an uncertain future for her,” (Marquez, 26). She is said to sit in the window of her house, making cloth flowers, and the narrator thought she looked more and more destitute every year. Angela was returned to her unsuspecting family after she got married to her husband, Bayardo, after he discovered that she was no longer a virgin. Staying a virgin until marriage was an ideal that was deeply rooted in Angela’s culture. The extent to how much staying pure until marriage is a part of this culture is clearly depicted when Angela is returned by her husband, disgrace
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After this incident, Angela never marries again and lives a lonely life without Bayardo until he returns to her 23 years later. For 23 years, Angela lived a bitter and lonely life, writing letters to Bayardo, in which she asks him to return to her. Because Angela slept with someone before her marriage, thereby crossing the boundaries that her culture set for her, not only ruined her family’s reputation and got Santiago Nasar killed, but it also made Bayardo San Roman a victim of deceit, since he married Angela thinking that she was a virgin. Although Angela's virginity or lack thereof shouldn't concern him as he supposedly loves her, Bayardo, as a product of his culture, cannot help but return her because this is what his culture expects from him. Hence, when Angela is returned, her family is utterly humiliated. Pura Vicario, Angela’s mother, is so furious that “she beats Angela with such rage that” Angels thinks she is going to die. Because virginity is seen as being synonymous to having honor, the Vicario brothers, Pedro and Pablo, believe that they have to murder Santiago, the man who allegedly deflowered Angela, in order or preserve their sister’s …show more content…
After Pedro and Pablo discover that Santiago supposedly deflowered their sister, they feel as if it is their duty to murder Santiago because it was “a matter of honor” (Marquez, 49). Also, they are pressured by others to defend their sister’s honor because many people in their culture believe that “Honor doesn’t wait” (Marquez, 84) and that the Vicario brothers need to kill Santiago in order to preserve their family’s honor. Also, Pablo’s fiancé said “I knew what they were up to, and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married him if he hadn’t done what a man should do” (Marquez, 103). This urged the Vicario twins to murder Santiago as well, especially Pablo. I do not think that Pedro and Pablo would truly have murdered Santiago is it wasn’t for their society pressuring them to do so. Pedro and Pablo are two innocent young men who feel pressured by society to become violent and murder Santiago; they do not kill Santiago Nasar because it is their true intention to do so, but because of their culture’s expectations to defend their family’s honor. This is also why no one in the society questions the actions of Pedro and Pablo after they murdered Santiago and also why no one warned Santiago of what was to happen to him. Since Pedro and Pablo were essentially forced to murder Santiago in order to conform to their culture’s expectations of them. Marquez dictates to the
After this incident, Angela never marries again and lives a lonely life without Bayardo until he returns to her 23 years later. For 23 years, Angela lived a bitter and lonely life, writing letters to Bayardo, in which she asks him to return to her. Because Angela slept with someone before her marriage, thereby crossing the boundaries that her culture set for her, not only ruined her family’s reputation and got Santiago Nasar killed, but it also made Bayardo San Roman a victim of deceit, since he married Angela thinking that she was a virgin. Although Angela's virginity or lack thereof shouldn't concern him as he supposedly loves her, Bayardo, as a product of his culture, cannot help but return her because this is what his culture expects from him. Hence, when Angela is returned, her family is utterly humiliated. Pura Vicario, Angela’s mother, is so furious that “she beats Angela with such rage that” Angels thinks she is going to die. Because virginity is seen as being synonymous to having honor, the Vicario brothers, Pedro and Pablo, believe that they have to murder Santiago, the man who allegedly deflowered Angela, in order or preserve their sister’s …show more content…
After Pedro and Pablo discover that Santiago supposedly deflowered their sister, they feel as if it is their duty to murder Santiago because it was “a matter of honor” (Marquez, 49). Also, they are pressured by others to defend their sister’s honor because many people in their culture believe that “Honor doesn’t wait” (Marquez, 84) and that the Vicario brothers need to kill Santiago in order to preserve their family’s honor. Also, Pablo’s fiancé said “I knew what they were up to, and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married him if he hadn’t done what a man should do” (Marquez, 103). This urged the Vicario twins to murder Santiago as well, especially Pablo. I do not think that Pedro and Pablo would truly have murdered Santiago is it wasn’t for their society pressuring them to do so. Pedro and Pablo are two innocent young men who feel pressured by society to become violent and murder Santiago; they do not kill Santiago Nasar because it is their true intention to do so, but because of their culture’s expectations to defend their family’s honor. This is also why no one in the society questions the actions of Pedro and Pablo after they murdered Santiago and also why no one warned Santiago of what was to happen to him. Since Pedro and Pablo were essentially forced to murder Santiago in order to conform to their culture’s expectations of them. Marquez dictates to the