Nostromo · Character
Signora Teresa
Giorgio Viola's ailing, sharp-tongued wife, who scolds her Garibaldino husband in the sun and hides a mortal pain behind her handsome, black-browed face.
supporting
Also known as Teresa, Señora Teresa, Poor Teresa
First appearance: nostromo
As a supporting figure in Nostromo, Signora Teresa is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Giorgio's wife, terrified and praying, calls out for Nostromo and blames him for not being there.
Teresa keeps the Viola household at the Sulaco inn, issuing from doorways to rebuke Giorgio for his politics and his health while the engineers eat his cooking under Garibaldi's lithograph. She suppresses the twinge in her side with a twitch of her fine lips, having followed her husband from Italy to Maldonado to this flat, dusty coast for the love of liberty. Her dying anxieties — about her daughters, about Nostromo's dangerous glamour — seed the fears that will shape the Viola family's fate.
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Relationship types
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Sulaco elite and revolutionaries
- Local collaborators and officials
- Protagonist
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Signora Teresa is a maternal figure to Nostromo, often scolding him but caring deeply for… How this plays out →
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family · ambivalent
Signora Teresa is a maternal figure to Nostromo, often scolding him but caring deeply for… How this plays out →
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