Chronicle of a Death Foretold perspective

One perspective we get of someone who knew about the murder and did absolutely nothing to stop it is from Victoria Guzman, the cook of Santiago Nasar's family. She confesses to the narrator that she had known about the murder before Santiago had come down for his morning coffee, but decided not to tell him because she believed "it was drunkards' talk" (13). She describes Santiago's horror at the inhumane way in which she fed the rabbits' guts to the dogs, telling the narrator that looking back on it, she sees the horrible coincidence in the way in which Santiago was killed and the possible foreshadowing that was occuring even in Santiago's mind of the way in which he would die. She also describes Santiago very poorly, stating that "he always got up with a face of a bad night" (9). By saying this, she is setting up his long-determined death and justifying why it was okay for her to do nothing to prevent it. Victoria had a biased, hateful view of Santiago because she had sore feelings about the way in which his father had treated her. This is probably why she doesn't warn Santiago and does absolutely nothing to prevent his death. Later we learn from her daughter that her mother secretely wanted Santiago dead. This proves that yet another oral account of the murder is not supported by truth and is clouded by a baised opinion of the victim.