 As with many of his stories, such as "Love in the Time of Cholera" and" Chronicle of a Death Foretold", García Márquez introduces a dramatic scene to begin his narrative and then moves backward, rehashing the past that will lead up to the ultimate conclusion.It is discovered within the narrative that the center of all the conflict (the deceased) is a doctor who came to Macondo with a mysterious past and no clear name.The man's only saving grace is a letter of recommendation from the Colonel Aureliano Buendia, one of the main characters of the later " One Hundred Years of Solitude".