There are many aspects that make up human nature, some are good features and some are bad. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Collected Stories, gossip plays a major role in what determines human nature. The people in these stories are driven by gossip, which spreads more quickly than expected. Through this gossip, the people display conformity and a mob mentality and believe what they are told even when there is no evidence to prove it. I also agree with how Marquez portrays the people in his stories and how gossip plays a major role in people’s lives. Conformity is when people act in a way that is socially acceptable to those around them. The characters in Marquez’s stories exhibit this conformity in response to an experience or an event. For example, the people in the town in “Tuesday Siesta” were sleeping when the woman and girl arrived, “At that hour, weighted down by drowsiness, the town was taking a siesta”(107). However, the entire town was at the priest’s house when they were about to leave, “Now there were not only children. There were groups of people under the almond trees”(112). The people in this town demonstrate conformity by not only sleeping at the same…show more content… When she was signing her will a crowd had gathered outside her house, “a secret tremor shook the hearts of the crowds which were beginning to gather in front of the house”(205). This is also another example of how quickly gossip can spread. Somehow the people had heard that Big Mama was making her will and gathered outside her house. Once people had started gathering, more people came because they had a need for conformity and a need to know what was happening. The examples in these two stories support that gossip is a major part of human nature because of the people’s displays of conformity when learning about something out of the
