Gabriel García Márquez

Why are the mayor's last words to Aurelio Escovar important? It's important because he is openly admitting his corruption to the dentist. As my colleague above states, the mayor equates his own...

The short story "One of These Days" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a seemingly simple plot. A dentist wakes early and goes about his work. Although he does not possess a degree, he performs his work...

"Eva Is Inside her Cat" is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez in which metaphors communicate action, subtext, style, and tone. The story opens with the following line: All of a sudden she...

In Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “One of These Days,” the protagonist Aurelio Escovar first appears to be a flat and undeveloped character; through the course of his actions, however, he is...

In the short story, "One Of These Days," a dentist, Aurelio Escovar, treats a mayor for an infected tooth. At first, however, the dentist refuses to see the mayor and tries to pretend that he is...

The theme of Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “Big Mama’s Funeral” might be the corruptive nature of entrenched power. As her name suggests, Big Mama has a large influence on her kingdom. She...

In "One of These Days" by Gabriel García Márquez, a poor, unlicensed dentist by the name of Aurelio Escovar is called upon by the local mayor to extract a painful infected tooth. At first, he's...

The moral values in the story are best seen in the townspeople's reactions to something so unique, different, exotic, and strange as this man washing up ashore, dead, and who looked so strikingly....

"One Of These Days" is a short story about power and revenge. The two principal characters are the dentist Aurelio Escovar and the Mayor. The Mayor insists on seeing the dentist because he needs a...

"Death Constant Beyond Love", or "Muerte Constante Mas Alla del Amor" (1970) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a brilliant example of Romantic or Realistic literature. The elements of Romantic...

Your argument regarding the three reasons why la viuda led a lonely and sheltered life goes hand in hand with the story "La Viuda de Montiel", especially towards the paragraph that reads: Aquella...

Irony is defined as the narrator's choice to use language to juxtapose what is said to what it is intended to be said. This form of figurative language can manifest in epigrams, paradoxes, and...

It is ironic that despite his power, the Mayor yields to Aurelio Escovar’s power and authority over him during the removal of the Mayor's tooth. Throughout the play, there is an apparent power...

La primera instancia de ironía en el cuento "La Viuda de Montiel" ocurre al principio cuando Márquez describe el semblante del cadaver de José (Chepe) Montiel expuesto en capilla ardiente. La...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One of These Days" and Jorge Luis Borges's "Emma Zunz" are short stories that deal with revenge and justice. In Marquez's story, the main character is a dentist who...

Myth and memory play significant roles in many of Gabriel García Márquez's novels. Love in the Time of Cholera is a mythical love story in the sense that it showcases a sublime form of love between...

When Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda, first see the old man, he appears to them in the following way: "He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull...

Gabriel García Márquez was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist who began his writing career as a journalist. He is most well known for his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, which centers on the...