"'They looked like two children,' she told me. And that frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children were capable of everything." [55]
This line really intrigues me. Clotilde Armenta comments that Pablo and Pedro Vicario seemed like two children while they drink and openly plan a murder in her store. Children are capable of everything because people believe they are innocent and do not have the capacity of hurting something or someone intentionally. Children are seen as innocent and oblivious, and they are thus capable of getting away with the things they do. The fact that Armenta sees the two brothers as children make it clear that she sees them as capable of committing the crime and getting away with it.
In a way, the whole town can be seen as being childlike. They all are conceived to be innocent of the crime, and oblivious as to the events that are happening. Caught up in the events of the day, the whole town lets a man die. All are caught up in believing that the crime would never occur. It is this naivete of the town that allows events become unclear and perpetuates the death of Santiago Nasar.
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