# Aunt Porredda — After the Divorce character guide

> Aunt Porredda in After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Porredda, Poor Aunt Porredda

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-i

## Snapshot

Poor Aunt Porredda, keeper of the house where Giovanna weeps, scolds and prays by turns and cannot decide whether God or the devil is winning.

## Who they are

A superstitious, hard-working relative in whose home Giovanna takes refuge when Costantino is arrested, she bustles between kitchen, gallery, and courtyard trying to hold the family together. Her instinct is to scold grief into silence and call for reinforcements, yet she is genuinely tender toward the children and the disgraced. She matters because her cramped, devout household is the stage where Giovanna's loyalty and Costantino's absence are first measured against the village's judgment.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/after_the_divorce_se/chapters/part-i-i)

The matriarch of the Porru household, she manages the family and attempts to soothe Giovanna while preparing supper.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/after_the_divorce_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Hosts the family after the verdict, attempts to comfort them and talk of ordinary matters, and offers her home as their own.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/after_the_divorce_se/chapters/part-ii-ix)

Aunt Porredda is deeply troubled by the divorce and remarriage, viewing it as a sin and a sign of moral decay.

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