![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even his last name, which means “valuable” or “prized,” makes it clear that he’s the chosen one. At the beginning of the novel, Juan Preciado looks like an archetypal male protagonist: he is an estranged son seeking to prove himself by journeying into the underworld and confronting his father. He spends the rest of the book as one of these ghosts, buried in a grave with Dorotea, listening in on other dead people’s conversations. Just when he’s planning to leave Comala, the murmurs of the town’s endless ghosts overwhelm him and frighten him to death. ![]() He spends the next quarter of the novel meeting the ghosts of various people who lived and died there, learning about the town’s history from these ghosts, and finally taking shelter with Donis’s sister and getting caught up in vivid dreams. But when he arrives in Comala, he learns that the town has long since been abandoned and Pedro Páramo has long since died. Pedro Páramo begins with Juan Preciado explaining that he came to Comala to fulfill his mother Dolores Preciado’s dying wish: that he track down his father, Pedro Páramo, and take revenge on him by claiming his rightful inheritance. His narrative voice dominates the first part of the novel, until his death around halfway through. Juan Preciado is one of the novel’s three main protagonists, along with Pedro Páramo and Susana San Juan. ![]()
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