María · Character
Tiburcio
The mulatto laborer whose stubborn pride and quarrels with Salome turn a servant's courtship into one of the novel's sharpest portraits of love across class.
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Also known as mulatto Tiburcio, Christmas Tiburcio
First appearance: vi
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Tiburcio works the estate and the festivals, but his real presence is felt in the arguments Salome recounts—his coldness, her tears, her father's anger. Proud and easily wounded, he refuses to be managed even by the…
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- Secondary household and workers
- Core family and household
- Mother and child figure
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