OMG The Fishes! in Episode 2 of Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Letter to Netflix About "Little Gold Fishes" Imagery in Episode 2
Dear Netflix,
Who is responsible for planting all the “little gold fishes” in Episode 2: It’s Like An Earthquake?
I have a particular fondness for these “little gold fishes” in the book.
So, I’m asking because, well, I’d like to shake this person’s hand and then ask tons of questions about how this came to be.
Perhaps, they’d even like to geek out with me about the book and the 16 times I annotated those little fishes in the original text.
Anyway, I just had to write to someone. I was too ecstatic about noticing Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s little gold fishes to stay quiet.
Swimmingly,
Sara
“Little Gold Fish” Details from Episode 2
“Little Gold Fish” Annotation Guide For The Book
page 66 Colonel Aureliano Buendía gives a little gold fish to his child bride Remedios…
page 107 Colonel Aureliano Buendía “made his living from the little gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo.
p 140 Colonel Aureliano Buendía dreams of dying in “rural peace…making little gold fishes.”
p 174 “he passed the time putting little gold fishes together”
p 175 Amaranta tries to “reconcile her image of the brother who had spent his adolescence making little gold fishes with that of the mythical warrior…”
p 196 Aureliano Segundo thinks about learning the art of making little gold fishes, but gives up.
p 203 Colonel Aureliano Buendía is making little gold fishes again.
p 219 “He ordered them to leave him in peace, insisting that he was not a hero of the nation as they said but an artisan without memories whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
p 249 After the war, Colonel Aureliano Buendía makes little gold fishes and keeps in touch with rebel officers.
p 263 Colonel Aureliano Buendía stops selling the fishes, but keeps making them.
p 270 Colonel Aureliano Buendía makes the little gold fishes and them melts them down again, over and over again, obsessively.
p 285 Amaranta realizes why Colonel Aureliano Buendía was stuck in “the vicious circle” of making fishes.
p 316 Soldiers take the little gold fishes as relics.
p 321 Fernanda wonders about “the vice of building so that he could take apart” as it relates to Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s little gold fishes.
p 366 Aureliano gives Amaranta Úrsula 14 little gold fishes.
p 416 passage about Colonel Aureliano Buendía “stupefying himself with the deception of war and the little gold fishes”