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While Garcia Marquez makes no divisions in the text, this discussion will consider the plot in four separate stages. The story begins with the ‘‘old man's’’ arrival and ends with his departure. The intervening period, which covers several years, may be divided into two stages: the brief sensation caused by his appearance and a long period of declining interest in which the strange visitor is all but forgotten.
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The setting is an unnamed coastal village, at an unspecified time in the past. A long rainstorm has washed crabs up from the beach into Pelayo's...
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