Pedro Páramo

by

Juan Rulfo

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A rebozo is a long woven cloth garment often worn by Mexican women and traditional associated with Mexican national identity.

Rebozo Quotes in Pedro Páramo

The Pedro Páramo quotes below are all either spoken by Rebozo or refer to Rebozo. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24 Quotes

As I passed a street corner, I saw a woman wrapped in her rebozo; she disappeared as if she had never existed. I started forward again, peering into the doorless houses. Again the woman in the rebozo crossed in front of me.

Related Characters: Juan Preciado (speaker)
Page Number: 8
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Rebozo Term Timeline in Pedro Páramo

The timeline below shows where the term Rebozo appears in Pedro Páramo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24
History, Memory, and Narrative Theme Icon
...hear his own footsteps echoing off the abandoned buildings. He glimpses a woman wearing a rebozo, but like a ghost, she vanishes and then reappears inside one of the houses’ empty... (full context)
Fragments 37-46, Pages 61-85
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Love and Patriarchy Theme Icon
...He asks Damiana if she knows Dorotea—Damiana says that Dorotea is outside, singing to her rebozo, which she has bundled up like the baby she has lost. Miguel goes outside to... (full context)