McTeague · Character
Maria Macapa
The flat's maid-of-all-work, a superstitious woman who tells anyone who'll listen about the gold dinner service her family once owned.
supporting
Also known as Maria, Macapa, May
First appearance: i
As a supporting figure in McTeague, Maria Macapa is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Introduced as a maid in the apartment building who tells stories about a set of gold dishes.
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Maria cleans McTeague's rooms, gossips across the building, and thrills at dogfights and small scandals with equal appetite. Her recurring tale of a lost golden service is half memory, half mania, and it lodges in the…
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- Social
- Psychological
- Other
Character groups
- Polk Street community
- Peripheral or historical figures
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Trina Sieppe
social · ambivalent
Maria is a gossipy acquaintance and neighbor who interacts frequently with Trina. How this plays out →
- Zerkow
psychological · negative
- Marcus Schouler
social · ambivalent
- McTeague
social · ambivalent
- Old Grannis
social · positive
- Trina Sieppe
social · ambivalent
Maria is a gossipy acquaintance and neighbor who interacts frequently with Trina. How this plays out →
- Marcus Schouler
social · ambivalent
- Trina Sieppe
social · ambivalent
Maria is a gossipy acquaintance and neighbor who interacts frequently with Trina. How this plays out →
- Zerkow
psychological · negative
- Zerkow
psychological · negative
- McTeague
social · ambivalent
- Old Grannis
social · positive
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