Amaranda in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has always been a contradiction, she loves Pietro deeply, but she allows his death. She fell in love with her nephew Aureliano and closed the latch with her own hands. She loved Herinelledo, but she never wanted to marry him.
Her indifference had always frightened her mother Ursula, but it was not until the end that Ursula discovered that Amaranda was the most gentle woman ever in the world. Amaranda's infliction of those unfair torments on Pietro Crespi was not motivated by revenge, as everyone thought; Colonel Grenelledo Márquez waited day and night in vain, nor out of bitter resentment, as everyone thought. In fact, both acts are a deadly contest between infinite love and invincible timidity, and in the end it is Amaranda's unjustified fear, which is the object of her own tormented mind.
But why was Amaranda timid? She was born not by her mother's kisses and caresses, but by cold examinations, worried that she had organs that did not belong to humans, and after forty days Ursula left the house to find her eldest son, and when she returned, she was busy with the candy critter business, and then Amaranda grew up a little, Rebecca came again, Rebecca had pica, so everyone's attention was on Rebecca at that time, and later Macondo fell into insomnia, and when she grew up, Rebecca was the better of the two. Her first love, the Italian pianist, also fell in love with Rebecca, and her father, José Arcadio Buendía, asked Rebecca to marry Crespi.
From the first half of Amaranda's life, she did not get the attention of her mother, and even has been ignored, because Rebecca and Ursula are closer, even Amaranda is not comparable, this is a huge blow to a child, the family does not pay attention to so Amaranda feels that no one loves her, this is shown when Helinerdo proposed, Amaranda blurted out that he loved her only because he could not marry Aureliano, She subconsciously thinks she is not liked, so she feels uneasy and timid when love comes.
The Buendía family could not escape the fate of loneliness and incest, and Amaranda had been sewing her birthday clothes in her later years, realizing that the world was nothing but something outside of her body.
Amaranda's life was lonely, resentful and neurotic, she also longed for her mother to understand her and help her after Pietro's death, but Ursula did not, so she fell completely into despair, she loved Pietro, but her love for him, his love for her came at an inopportune time, Pietro's tragedy was doomed from the time he said I had a brother, Amaranda was proud, she would not accept this insult, and everything that followed was so natural, He loves Rebecca but can propose to himself so quickly, does he really love me? Did he just choose rebecca because he didn't have a way to marry her? These problems may haunt Amaranda, a child who lacks love from childhood does not understand how to deal with intimate relationships, they can not handle a relationship normally, can only constantly refuse and hurt others to prove the so-called love, hurt others and hurt themselves.
Herinelledo had been Amaranda's redemption, and his love was touched by the beauty Remedios, but this still could not reassure Amaranda, she was still afraid, and the desire to cry tormented her, but she only despaired at the moment.
In fact, in the lack of love and neglect of children growing up will be very concerned about other people's thoughts, especially the affirmation of parents, because of the lack of love, so the first reaction when encountering others to show kindness to themselves is not confident, because of the lack of love, so they will not deal with the relationship with others, slowly isolate themselves, more and more lonely, just like the later Amaranda in the later period when asked by the nuns what to put in the soup, she directly answered arsenic, so it caused a huge panic, she will not get along with others, The original Amaranta was also a young girl who could politely receive Amparo Moscot with Rebecca, but later she became more and more mean.
The impact of lack of love and neglect is lifelong, and some people cannot even bow to this shadow for a lifetime.
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