The town was waiting for the Bishop. Everyone assumed the Vicario twins were bluffing. Santiago Nasar was too rich, too charming, and too innocent (in the narrator's memory) to actually die.
Yet, we know how the chronicle ends. And that makes every step Santiago takes in Chapter 1 feel like a march toward the inevitable. Reading Chapter 1 of Chronicle of a Death Foretold (whether in a physical book or a scanned PDF) is like watching a car crash in slow motion. You want to scream at the page: "Go home, Santiago!" cronica de una muerte anunciada pdf capitulo 1
Let’s break down the key elements of the first chapter. The narrator, who returns to the town 27 years after the murder, acts like a detective. He is not trying to find who killed Santiago Nasar (we know it was the Vicario twins), but how it was possible that a whole town knew about the murder plot and let it happen. The town was waiting for the Bishop