Concluding Thoughts
Most of us are limited to the singular reality of the societies we live in. After one reads One Hundred Years of Solitude, however, it is clear that this singular reality is not 
the case for everyone. Marquez exposes to his reader that “reality isn’t limited to the price of tomatoes and eggs,” that in some places, the magical does exist (Mendoza 35). But he isn’t suggesting a saw-a-woman-in-half kind of magic. It is a Latin American kind, one which is produced when diverse peoples and cultures rub together, spark, and form something different. Though the world he represents does not put preference on rationality over fantasy, it is not idealized: it has as much pain and frustration as it has joy and beauty. What is portrayed, however, is almost an ultimate reality. The truth does not come from textbook only, but from the stories of the lives of regular people. The use of dreams as a framework to magical realism allows us to see and feel the truth latent within the narrative. It is a gift to those of us who’d like to see beyond the confines of a regular reality.
Frida Kahlo, Moses 1945
Read more:
Considering Dreams in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fictional Space
Dreams and Narrative
Magical Realism: The World of Macondo
Meaningful Bizarreness
Marquez and Jung
Concluding Thoughts
Further Reading
About the Author