Fernanda is significant to the story because she is one of the "outsiders" who enters the family, though she is not truly part of the family to Ursula's dismay because she has such rigid religious rules that she tries to force the family to abide by. She is preferable over Petra because of the integrity that Ursula is trying to preserve in the family. This is part of the introspection that all the children seem to have resulting in incest etc. Though she is very different from the rest of the family, at least she is respectable and honorable and therefore can be expected to maintain the families "good" name. Before Aureliano Segundo finds out how up tight she is, he chased after her. "With the fierce temerity with which Jose Arcadio Buendia had crossed the moutnains to found Macondo, with the blind pride with which Colonel Aureliano Buendia had undertaken his fruitless wars, with the mad tenacity with which Ursula watched over the survival of the line, Aureliano Segundo looked for Fernanda, without a single moment of respite."
I think the rediscovery of Rebeca and her refusal to return to the family means that she will be the one who maintains the 100 years of solitude and will be able to read Melquiades' manuscripts. The Aurelianos who do not understand the complicated history of the family try to coax her out and renovate the outside of her house but she would still not be moved. "Aureliano Segundo decided that they would have to bring her to the house and take care of her, but his good intentions were frustrated by the firm intransigence of Rebeca, who had needed many years of suffering and misery in order to attain the privileges of solitude and who was not disposed to renounce them in exchange for an old age disturbed by the false attractions of charity."
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