The Narrator of One Hundred Years of Solitude Essay -- One Hundred Yea

The Narrator of One Hundred Years of Solitude     Who is this vote counter of One Hundred Years of Solitude? He or she knows the tout ensemble history of the Buendias better than any of them know it. But the narrator is not quite omniscient. For example, the opening sentence (quoted earlier) and Pilars insight into the axle of time are two of the very few places where the narrator claims to be able to read a characters thoughts. Generally, we get to know characters from close observation of what they say and do, and we have to suppose what they may be thinking. The narrators knowledge likewise fails us in the one great unresolved mystery Jose Arcadio, elder son of the founder, is murdered in his bed, but no one ever knows by whom. The narrator is also ignorant of who guns down all of the colonels illegitimate sons and, in fact, seems as impress as we are when the last survivor from among these sons appears in Macondo and is also snap fastener down.   There are two likely candidates for narrator. One is Melquiades, the gypsy superstar and wise man...