Summary of i sell your dreams by gabriel marquez?

Answer 1

One day while the narrator was having breakfast in the morning at the Havana Riviera Hotel, a gigantic wave crushed down "like an explosion of dynamite" on the shore and picked up several cars. Under one of smashed cars was found a smashed a woman wearing "a gold ring shaped like a serpent, with emerald eyes". And her eyes and ring reminded the narrator "an unforgettable woman" who used to wear "a similar ring on her right forefinger" whom he met thirty-four years earlier in Vienna which was an old imperial city then. When she was asked "how she had come to be in a world so distant and different from the windy cliffs of Quindio, she answered "I sell my dreams." Selling dream was her only trade. She was the third of eleven children born to a prosperous shopkeeper in old Caldas. In her childhood her dreams began to show oracular qualities. In her youth she turned her dreams into a source of earnings. One night she told the narrator to leave Vienna. Considering her conviction real, the narrator boarded the last train to Rome that same night and "considered himself a Survivor of some catastrophe". Later the narrator happened to meet Pablo Neruda and they found that woman; by then the woman earned affluence by selling dreams. Anyway they spent time together for some days. One day Neruda "dreamed about that woman who dream(ed)"s. Later after Neruda "took his leave", the narrator met the woman and she said "I dreamed he(Neruda) was dreaming about me." After that day, the narrator never met her again. After the Havana Riviera disaster, the narrator met the Portuguese ambassador with whom that woman wearing a snake ring come and he asked him "what did she do?" He (the ambassador) answered with a certain disenchantment "Nothing," "she dreamed."