... the writer is presenting and describing is not after all what he is chiefly concerned with, but that there is a hidden or deeper meaning. Gabriel Garcia Marquez in "Chronicle of a Death foretold," employs a journalistic and factual style of writing. The novels main "purpose" is clarifying the events surrounding ... The stories I shall deal with are "Grief," "At Sea," "He Understood," and "Agafya". This essay attempts to show the symbolism employed by Garcia and Marquez, and to recognize their deeper, intended meaning. A striking feature in Chekhov's Story "Grief" is his use of weather: "...

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