One Hundred Years of Solitude

of the plan to move Maeondo
to a better place. But that time
Úrsula had anticipated his
feverish designs. With the
secret and implacable labor of
a small ant she predisposed
the women of the village
against the flightiness of their
husbands, who were already
preparing for the move. José
Arcadio Buendía did not
know at what moment or
because of what adverse
forces his plan had become