# Tiburcio — María character guide

> Tiburcio in María by Jorge Isaacs.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** mulatto Tiburcio, Christmas Tiburcio

**First appearance:** 0007-vi

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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 woman who plainly adores him. His offstage stubbornness gives the early chapters their comic and painful counterpoint to Efraín and María's exalted romance.

## Relationships

### [Efraín](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mar_a_se/characters/efrain)

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Tiburcio is a servant on the estate, and Efraín interacts with him in a master-servant dynamic.

### [Efraín](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mar_a_se/characters/efrain)

_professional_

Tiburcio is a servant on the estate, and Efraín interacts with him in a master-servant dynamic.

### [Efraín](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mar_a_se/characters/efrain)

_professional_

Tiburcio is a servant on the estate, and Efraín interacts with him in a master-servant dynamic.

## In the story

### [XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mar_a_se/chapters/xliii)

Jealous of Justiniano and believes Salomé prefers him. He is convinced by Efraín to visit Salomé and reconcile, though he remains somewhat doubtful.

## Links

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