Santa Sofía de la Piedad

Santa Sofía de la Piedad plays the role of José Arcadio submissive wife. So, in her youth, she was bought from her parents, and when her future husband Arcadio fell in love with a woman under the name of Pilar Turner, not even suspecting that she was his mother. Therefore, to prevent the incest act between the mother and her son José Arcadio Buendia, Turner Pilar paid to Santa Sofia de la Piedad, a virgin, 50 pesos, so she slept with him. So, she became the selfless mother of three children: Remedios the Beauty and the twins Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo the second. In general, it can be said that this woman, who possessed a rare dignity of not existing completely, but at the right time, lived anonymously for the most part of the novel, dragging out an impersonal, empty and meaningless existence. But this is not because she would like it, but because the circumstances developed in this way.