One critic note the long-term change in Angela, stating that "she undergoes an extraordinary conversion and discovers in herself a love for Bayardo San Roman as tremendous and inexplicable as his for her" (Michaels para. 5). This change in Angela has to be as much a surprise to her as it is to Bayardo and the reader, but again, her choices are limited.

Other females in the community have been lusting after Bayardo before his wedding, and he is cited by one young woman who says, "I could have buttered him and eaten him alive" (Marquez 202). He is a catch because he is not only handsome and athletic but also rich, for "he's swimming in gold" (Marquez 203). At the same time, descriptions of him suggest that he is not a nice man, as one older woman notes when she says he "reminded me of the devil" (Marquez 204)....
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