placidalinero

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 * **Character Name** || Placida Linero ||
 * **Role in Plot** || Placida Linero is the mother of Santiago Nasar. She is well-known as an interpreter of dreams, but she fails to find any omens in Santiago’s dream on the night before his murder. Among the many roles played by the townspeople in bringing about or failing to prevent the murder of Santiago Nasar, Placida Linero has a small part in that she bars her front door against the pursuing Vicario brothers while also (unknowingly) cutting off Santiago’s only path of escape.
 * **Significance of Name in Work** || Placida is the feminine form of the Italian name Placido, from the latin //Placidus// which means tranquil or calm. In English there is the word //placid// which means not easily upset or excited; calm. The name reflects Placida’s character, as she is a “woman of steady nerves” (137). Her only displays of emotion are when, during a conversation twenty-seven years after the murder, she sighs, remarking that Santiago was “the man in [her] life”, and also on the day of the murder, when dogs attempted to get at the corpse of Santiago, she “just once, lost her grip” and shouted “Those shitty dogs!...Kill them!” (85). Otherwise her dialogue is often bland and toneless. ||
 * **Student's Name** || Jeffrey Zhao ||