Loft

Juan Preciado and Eduviges Dyada
Color palette of Juan Preciado: grey and beige

In Eduviges's inn we see a loft practically empty except for a palm-woven petate mat and a chair, this is where Eduviges shelters Juan Preciado upon his arrival in Comala. He's the son of her friend Dolores, whose surname he carries. As soon as he enters, Juan is unsettled by the sound of murmurs asking for "the right of a hanged man to his last words." This happens because in that same gloomy attic, the murder of Toribio Aldrete took place—a landowner whom Páramo falsely accused of trying to steal his lands, and ordered him eliminated. Aldrete is killed by Fulgor and other workers from La Media Luna, who hang him. After witnessing this scene, Eduviges, desperate, overcome with grief and the weight of solitude, takes her own life.

Juan Preciado dresses in an urban style because he comes from the city: an ordinary wool suit with a cotton shirt, a teardrop crown hat, and a leather satchel. He'll wear these same clothes throughout the entire film, though in his various wanderings through Comala he'll gradually lose some pieces.

Eduviges Dyada's costume exemplifies the communion between character and narrative: Rulfo only mentions that Eduviges died drowned in her own blood, without specifying whether it was by cutting her throat or by hanging. This is why the embroidery on her linen blouse, stitched in red thread, evokes the spatter of blood spilled at her death. Keeping to her palette, she wears a short, wide apron over a skirt made from traditional fabric with hand-sewn buttons.