One Hundred Years of Solitude

for the first time she saw
clearly the truths that her
busy life in former times had
prevented her from seeing.
Around the time they were
preparing José Arcadio for
the seminary she had already
made a detailed recapitulation
of life in the house since the
founding of Macondo and
had completely changed the
opinion that she had always
held of her descendants. She
realized that Colonel