The smell symbolizes the guilt of the people in the town and the mourning for Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes this device because it shows how hard it is for the people in the town to think about Santiago Nasar after his death because the town knows that what happened to Santiago Nasar was partially their fault even though they did not directly kill him. Instead they feel guilty because they knew that they contributed to the death of Santiago Nasar. In addition, Márquez includes dramatic irony when he includes how the people of the town assumes that Santiago Nasar was not in danger anymore and “‘...thought it all had been a fib’... No one even wondered whether Santiago Nasar had been warned, because it seemed impossible to all that he hadn’t” (Márquez 19-20). This is dramatic irony because the characters think that the plan would not come through or that it was just the drunkenness from the wedding talking. However, the reader knows that it is not a fib and that the Vicario brothers do indeed kill Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes dramatic irony in the novel to show how even though people in the town knows that Pedro and Pablo Vicario were planning to kill Santiago Nasar, they are reluctant to believe it and assumes
The smell symbolizes the guilt of the people in the town and the mourning for Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes this device because it shows how hard it is for the people in the town to think about Santiago Nasar after his death because the town knows that what happened to Santiago Nasar was partially their fault even though they did not directly kill him. Instead they feel guilty because they knew that they contributed to the death of Santiago Nasar. In addition, Márquez includes dramatic irony when he includes how the people of the town assumes that Santiago Nasar was not in danger anymore and “‘...thought it all had been a fib’... No one even wondered whether Santiago Nasar had been warned, because it seemed impossible to all that he hadn’t” (Márquez 19-20). This is dramatic irony because the characters think that the plan would not come through or that it was just the drunkenness from the wedding talking. However, the reader knows that it is not a fib and that the Vicario brothers do indeed kill Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes dramatic irony in the novel to show how even though people in the town knows that Pedro and Pablo Vicario were planning to kill Santiago Nasar, they are reluctant to believe it and assumes