The document provides character summaries of Doña Victorina from various chapters of the novel. Doña Victorina is portrayed as a self-important Spanish woman married to a fake doctor. She looks down on Filipinos and has a superiority complex. Over the course of the novel, she is controlling of her husband and gets into arguments where she challenges native women. Her character represents someone obsessed with appearances and status who has not truly embraced her home of the Philippines.

1. The
Doña Victorina
In Chapters: 1, 43, 48, & 53

2. A Party
– Summary
 Captain Tiago hosts a party in Calle Anloague, town of
San Diego – which later on becomes an open party.
 Tiya Isabel, Tiago’s Cousin, was responsible for
entertaining the guests. Among the guests were Padre
Damaso, Sibyla, and Salvi. Along with Lt. Guevarra and
Señor Laruja.
 Padre Damaso was seen chatting with the Spanish man
with red hair, Señor Laruja. He was talking about how
Filipinos are Indio's and that they are insolent and foolish.
1.

3. A Party
– Summary
1.
 Lt. Guevarra stood up and argued with Padre Damaso
since he said that it was right to remove as a priest by the
Governor-General since he is the representative of the
Spanish in the Philippines.
 Also, because he removed the remains of a noble man in the
cemetery.
 Padre Sibyla calmed down Guevarra and Damaso.
 The de Espadaña couple arrived.
 Captain Tiago introduced the man beside him, which is the
reason for the party.

4. Doña Victorina
1.
in Chapter 1
 The Self-entitled, “Madam Doctor”
 Wore a European Dress; Rich
 Married to Don Tiburcio, a self-proclaimed doctor using
fake documents.
 Told Mr. Laruja that he was poor and that a poor
individual can’t invent gunpowder.
 Also argued with Father Damaso that gunpowder was
invented by the Chinese.

5. The Espadañas
43.
– Summary
Starts off with Maria Clara being ill.
Tiago hires a famous and expensive doctor to cure
her.
Again, Doña Victorina is described to wear
something very western. While Don Tiburcio was
just mentioned to be lame.

6. The Espadañas
43.
– Summary
Flashback on how the two met and came to be.
 Reminisces about the time she was young,
beautiful, and had a lot of admirers and suitors.
 Remembers her dream about having wanted to
marry a Spaniard.
Don Tiburcio: custom official who got dismissed
while in the Philippines.

7. The Espadañas
43.
– Summary
Flashback on how the two met and came to be.
 He was then discovered to have been a fake doctor.
A friend of Don Tiburcio mention Doña Victorina’s
name and quickly asks for an introduction upon
hearing about her predicament.
Don Tiburcio described Doña Victorina as untidy or
blowzy.

8. The Espadañas
43.
– Summary
Flashback on how the two met and came to be.
 Although after an hour of them conversing and getting to
know each other, they got engaged.
Even though they both didn’t want each
other, desperation took them over, that is why they
decided to marry.
Doña Victorina controls her husbands and wears the
pants in the family.

9. The Espadañas
43.
– Summary
Chapter
ends
with
Don
Tiburcio
recommending certain medication for Maria
Clara .
Father Damaso visits Maria Clara as well.

10. Doña Victorina
43
in Chapter 43
Delusional
Dim and Gullible
Superiority Complex over the Filipinos
Self-Centered
Total opposite of how a young single lady
should be
Still seen as rich and arrogant
Talks a lot

11. Two Ladies
48.
– Summary
Doña Victorina walks through the town with Don
Tiburcio, to show off to the natives “how far they
were below her sacrosanct person.
 Comments on the Natives
Doña Victorina starts to lose her composure and
her temper due to her husband’s response.
 Young Girls
 Sinang’s Coachman

12. Two Ladies
48.
– Summary
 Due to these events, she decides to go home. On the way
home, they ran to the lieutenant and exchanged
acknowledgements.
 Lieutenant’s reaction
 Doña Victorina’s reaction
 They pass by in front of the lieutenant’s house and Doña
Consolacion is at the window in her flannel blouse,
smoking a cigar. They exchanged meaningful disapproving
looks.
 Dona Consolation's Reactions

13. Two Ladies
 Argument
Victorina.
between
Doña
– Summary
Consolacion
and
48.
Doña
 Doña Victorina challenges Doña Consolacion to face
her.
 Don Tiburcio tries to stop them again with the help of the
lieutenant
 “Four people speaking at once and saying such
truths that the prestige of their class was irreparably
damaged.”

14. Doña Victorina
Proud
Controlling
Hot-Headed
Moody
48.
in chapter 48

15. Changes
– Summary
52.
Linares receives a letter poorly written in Spanish
by his aunt, Doña Victorina.
 Letter states that she wants Linares to challenge the
Alferez to a duel. Otherwise, she will incite her wrath
upon him.
Padre Salvi enters the scene announcing that
Ibarra’s excommunication had been lifted. While
interjecting Damaso’s dissatisfaction with the
youth.

16. Changes
– Summary
52.
As Ibarra appears, he talks to Sinang about:
 Being withdrawn and distant
 Helping him get Maria Clara alone with him
 The secret partnership with her father in putting up
an oil mill from the coconut groves in Los Baños.

17. Doña Victorina
52.
in chapter 52
 Barely seen in the chapter
 Only seen through the way she writes through the
letters
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The letter contains many grammatical errors
Full of demands and grave threats
Superiority complex is seen again
Manipulative

18. Doña Victorina -
a representation?
 A Ridiculous Character
 All About Appearance
 Social Climber
Rizal’s Lesson through Victorina:
- Embrace our country’s flaws, using different strategies,
towards progress and growth, helping your country instead
of giving up on it.