Yeah i got more to say, whatever
So this post is about time...again. anyway, To me in this novel time is totally not conventional. what i mean is rather than passing at a uniform speed for everybody like time in the real world. it seems to pass at different speeds for different characters. This is hinted at originally with the way two generations happened to span like 300 years. The other thing i see is that characters seem to age at different speeds. Ursula has got to be well over 100 now and she is still the head of the household. Jose Arcadio Buendia never seemed to age too much except in those years he seemed to age incredibly rapidly.
Melquiades ages differently than everybody by growing old then young again, then dying, then coming back again, then aging really rapidly in the end.
My personal favorite is Colonel Aureliano Buendia. He was born an adult already. Then time went by. Then he joined the war and it talked about how much he aged and became detached and how it was really fast. So he was already old, then he got much older faster. Basically i feel time was accelerated for him.