"When they brought to the table the tiger-striped bunch of bananas that they were accustomed to hang in the dining room during lunch, he picked the first piece of fruit without great enthusiasm. But he kept on eating as he spoke, tasting, chewing, more with the distraction of a wise man than with the delight of a good eater, and when he finished the first bunch he asked them to bring him another. Then he took a small case with optical instruments out of the toolbox that he always carried with him. With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers."
This quote is foreshadowing something about to happen. Aureliano Segundo invites a white man in his house to eat dinner, and instead the white man is probably going to take advantage of their new foods, and use them to make a profit back with the other white people. This reveals two major themes in this book: the changing in Macondo over centuries, and also the differences between people of different races. Both of these things are reflected in this quote.
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