A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Tuesday Siesta"
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Tuesday Siesta
Gabriel García Márquez
1962
Introduction
Tuesday Siesta
is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in Spanish as part of the short-story collection Los funerales de la Grande (Big Mama's Funeral) in 1962. It was first published in English in 1968. In an interview with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, García Márquez referred to Tuesday Siesta
as my best short story.
He was inspired to write the tale after seeing a woman and her daughter dressed in black, walking in the burning desert sun, carrying a black umbrella.
The story describes the journey by train of a woman and her twelve-year-old daughter, dressed in poor mourning clothes, to a small town, where the mother asks the town's priest for keys to the cemetery where her son is buried. The reader learns that the son was a thief who was shot while attempting to break into a woman's home. As the woman tries to persuade the priest to help her, a crowd gathers outside, having figured out that the mother of the thief has come to town.
The story showcases the dignity and pride of the poor woman in the face of the priest's authority and the disdain of the townspeople. She perseveres in her quest despite the heat, the priest's objections, and the gathering (possibly hostile) crowd of curious onlookers, who have arisen from their midday siesta to gawk at the thief's mother. The story can be found in the volume No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (1968) as well as in Collected Stories: Gabriel García Márquez (1999).
Author Biography
García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, a town in northern Colombia. Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, his mother, had left her parents' home to marry Eligio García because her parents disapproved of him. Luisa returned home briefly for the birth of her son. For the first six years of his life, García Márquez was raised by his grandparents, and then his parents moved back in as well. Therefore García Márquez's grandparents were the most influential figures of