100 years of solitude deep thinking questions

[cyagow]

-What allowed Jose Arcadio Buendia to be such a power head in society?
-Was the use of a prostitute a common practice for the time period?
Many of the Buendias do, and it doesn't seem like a big deal.
-Where did Rebeca come from and why can't she remeber anything?
-Why did she have an obsession with eating dirt?
-How did the war directly affect the town of Macondo?
-What was Colonel Aureliano and the Liberal party fighting for?
-What posessed both Rebeca and Amaranta to deny Pietro Crespi's
proposal?
-Why does Amaranta allow herself to be so cruel and unhappy as she
grows older?
-What did the town of Macondo think of the marriage between Rebeca and
Jose Arcadio?
-Why are the twins so different?
-Did the twins really switch names?
-Why did Colonel Aureliano Buendia make so many gold fish?
-Who was Remedios the Beauty really?
-How did she just assend off of the earth?
-Did the massacre really happend? Only one person remebered it.