Gerardo Trujillo is the Páramo family’s lawyer, who helps Pedro forge legal documents in order to snatch up land in Comala. Along with the rest of the town’s middle class, Gerardo nearly leaves Comala during the Mexican Revolution. But Trujillo is forced to stay in town when Pedro Páramo refuses to cover his family’s debts to him. He feels humiliated and underappreciated, but he has no power to make Pedro act fairly.
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Gerardo Trujillo Character Timeline in Pedro Páramo
The timeline below shows where the character Gerardo Trujillo appears in Pedro Páramo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Fragments 47-59, Pages 86-108
...Media Luna, for safekeeping). And Pedro will even give El Tilcuate a nearby ranch—his lawyer, Gerardo Trujillo , will handle the paperwork.
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Fragment 56. The lawyer Gerardo Trujillo informs Pedro Páramo that El Tilcuate died the night before in a shootout between the...
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Fragment 57. After only a few minutes, Gerardo Trujillo returns to Pedro and says that he does want to keep working for him, after...
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