However, some omens prove inaccurate, especially when someone outlives the life expectancy the superstition predicts, as Marquez reveals with Angela Vicario, who entered the world with her “umbilical cord wrapped around her neck”, which signals early death in Latin-American culture (32). Subtly, Marquez incorporates dramatic irony by associating the omen to a character who outlives some of the characters mentioned, implying the inaccuracy of the omen. His readers realize how traditional beliefs lack legitimacy and superstitions most likely fail to accurately predict the future. Consequently, the townspeople, specifically the narrator’s mother, responded to this unprecedented outcome by twisting the meaning of the supposed death omen into something
