100 Years of Solitude 11-15

Ursula's clairvoyance always hits the nail on the head, time is always going in circles in Macondo. But at the same time it is adding some new elements. If Petra is fertility, then Fernanda must represent barrenness. There is a huge disconnect here--Fernanda still seems to be living as if it were about the 1600s. While it isn't completely her fault since that's just how she was brought up, her trying to impose her traditions on the Buendía household can't be a good thing. She does not belong to the present, in fact she shouldn't even exist. In this way, I think she and Rebecca are parallels of each other. Rebecca only forces isolation on herself for the most part, and represents the unwillingness to accept change. Fernanda, on the other hand, although raised in isolation she does not remain that way. As a result, instead of trying to keep reality out of her life, she tries to change it in an unhealthy manner with expectations that most humans would not be able to fulfill.