Introduction & Overview of The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock by Gabriel García Márquez

The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock Introduction

"The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock" was first published in 1950 in El espectador, a Bogotá, Columbia, daily publication, where Gabriel García Márquez was already a renowned journalist. This twin pattern of fiction and journalism has influenced many of García Márquez's works, including his best-known novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel is a key example of the magical realism movement—which García Márquez helped to develop. It was after the success of his longer works that the author's earliest short stories, which had received little critical attention when they were first published, began to get reprinted and reviewed. Many critics consider "The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock" the best of these early stories, which are often thought of as failed experiments.

The story tells of an unnamed woman prostitute who comes into José's diner everyday at six o'clock for a free meal. One day, she comes...
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