Time: For the characters in the novel, time alternatively moves quickly and stagnates for years. In general, children grow up quickly, but when they are adults<particularly the male adults<time abandons them, leaving them to sit with their own nostalgia and bitterness for years on end. Time abandons Colonel Aureliano Buendia after the civil wars, and Jose Arcadio Segundo, both of them locked in Melquiades' laboratory, refusing to join the living, moving world. In her later years when Ursula considers her family, time appears to be moving in a circle. New children turn out to…
