Inés is the owner of a small local store in Comala, who appears at the very beginning and very end of the book. At the beginning, she extends credit to the destitute Páramo family so that they can replace their broken mill. At the end, she sells alcohol to the Abundio Martínez, heartbroken and grieving his wife’s death, shortly before he kills Pedro Páramo. Whereas she starts out in a position of power over Pedro Páramo but uses it to help empower Pedro’s family, she ends up in the same conditions as she started, watching Comala deteriorate because Pedro uses his own power to take as much of the town’s wealth as possible for himself. Nevertheless, Inés Villalpando is able to pass her store on to her son, Gamaliel, which illustrates the usual pattern of inheritance that Pedro Páramo otherwise disrupts in Comala.
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Inés Villalpando Character Timeline in Pedro Páramo
The timeline below shows where the character Inés Villalpando appears in Pedro Páramo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24
Pedro’s grandmother sends him to buy the mill from doña Inés Villalpando and inform her that the family won’t be able to pay its debts until...
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Fragments 60-68, Pages 109-124
...that morning, Abundio Martínez visits Gamaliel Villalpando’s store, but Gamaliel is asleep. When his mother Inés wakes him up, Gamaliel is hungover, angry, and delirious: he makes a vulgar complaint about...
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Doña Inés initially doesn’t understand what’s happened, but soon she starts claiming that she sensed the death,...
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