Apr 19, 2014
Stock Phrases in 100 Years of Solitude
Stock Phrases in 100 Years of Solitude
Formulas or Stock Phrases (Essay Excerpt)
García Márquez employs the use of stock phrases throughout the novel. Clauses such as the much–discussed many years later continually emphasize the past of the future time not the events of a present. Likewise, other phrases, such as:
“Colonel Gerineldo Márquez was the first to perceive the emptiness of war.” (161); “Amaranta was the first to suspect tha…
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