The Memory Of Angela Vicario's '

The three quotes provided are similar in that they all explore aspects of the difficulty of looking at events through memories. In the first quote, the narrator demonstrates that as far as the day of Santiago Nasar’s death goes, there are conflicting accounts of the weather that morning. The second compares looking at life through memories to looking at it through shards of broken glass – one cannot look at one complete picture and is thereby left to piece the memory together themselves. The final quote looks at the mismatch between the narrator’s mother’s memory of Angela Vicario’s auspiciousness and the narrator’s own recollection of her “helpless air and a poverty of spirit”.
More than just relating to memory, the quotes provided reveal