A list of characters in Huasipungo (1934, English translation by Bernard M. Dulsey: The Villagers, 1964) a novel by Jorge Icaza.
Name | Description |
Don Alfonso Pereira | considered a gentleman of high society in Quito |
Doña Blanca Chanique | Pereira’s wife and a matron of the church. |
Doña Lolita | Pereira’s adolescent daughter. |
Uncle Julio | Pereira’s powerful uncle, who has the habit of talking in plural. |
Mr. Chapy | the manager of the exploitation of wood in Ecuador; an American with great financial resources and millionaire connections abroad. |
Policarpio | the mayordomo of the Cuchitambo hacienda owned by Don Alfonso Pereira. |
Andrés Chiliquinga | the novel’s main protagonist of the novel, an Indian in the hacienda of Don Alfonso Pereira. He heads the resistance during the eviction of the Indians from their huasipungos. |
Jacinto Quintana | a mestizo who is the teniente politico, he is a bartender and foreman. He is corrupt and authoritarian. He despises and abuses the Indians. |
Juana | Jacinto Quintana’s mestiza wife, who has occasional sexual relations with Pereira and the priest. |
Gabriel Rodríguez | a one-eyed mestizo who is mean to the Indian people. |
The priest | An adulterer who gives sermons and puts fear in the hearts of the Indians in order to take advantage of them and achieve financial gain. |
Cunshi | drés Chiliquinga’s wife, who is physically and sexually abused both by Pereira and by her own husband. |
See also the Glossary for Huasipungo.