One Hundred Years of Solitude

customs in a town convulsed
by the vulgarity with which
the outsiders squandered their
easy fortunes. For her, with
no further questions asked,
proper people were those who
had nothing to do with the
banana company. Even José
Arcadio Segundo, her
brother-in-law, was the
victim of her discriminatory
jealousy because during the
excitement of the first days he
gave up his stupendous