Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by

Willa Cather

Inez Olivares Character Analysis

Inez Olivares is Isabella and Antonio Olivares’s daughter. Inez, in her 40s and unmarried, lives in New Orleans, though she comes to visit her family in Santa Fé once a year. Unlike her highly spirited parents, Inez has a more isolated life, as she spends much of her time in church and lives almost like a nun. Inez has no real income of her own, so protecting Inez’s financial security is one of the major reasons Isabella comes clean about her age in court.
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Inez Olivares Character Timeline in Death Comes for the Archbishop

The timeline below shows where the character Inez Olivares appears in Death Comes for the Archbishop. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 6: Don Antonio
Spirituality vs. the Material World Theme Icon
Memory, Death, and Afterlives Theme Icon
Isabella and Olivares have one daughter, an unmarried woman (likely in her 40s) named Inez. Though Inez has never taken the vows of a nun, she lives like one, visiting... (full context)
Book 6: The Lady
Spirituality vs. the Material World Theme Icon
...priests about the grounds on which Olivares’s brothers are contesting the will. They claim that Inez is too old to be Isabella’s daughter—and because Isabella does not want to reveal her... (full context)