What are the main points of Leaf Storm by García Márquez?

The main points of Leaf Storm, a
novella of 97 pages, are told in backward chronology beginning at the conclusion and
then looking back over a decade of history through the voices of three narrators before
returning to the conclusion of the story. The first main point encountered is the death
of the doctor, who gave up practicing medicne long ago out of a feeling of betrayal, and
has come to the end of his life, an end that he met halfway by hanging himself.  The
narrative is told through the voice of the doctor's friend, the colonel, who promised
his friend a proper burial; the doctor's daughter, who fears reprisal from the villagers
for burying the doctor; and the doctor's grandson, who has never yet encountered
death.

Next, but going back in time, the doctor came to
Macondo and set up medical practice but was soon driven out of practice by the "leaf
storm" of banana plantation companies, owners, and workers who stormed into Mancondo to
make a hurricane killing on the banana business. Their presence made quiet,
insignificant Mancondo into a banana boom town and the company doctors took all the
medical cases away from the doctor who is never given a name by author García
Márquez.

Another main point is that the doctor locks
himself away for a decade in a corner house with nothing around him but an indigenous
house maid named Meme from whom he also keeps away, living that way in complete
seclusion. Though he eventually breaks down enough to begin an illicit affair with Meme,
whom he later refuses to treat when she falls dangerously ill. During this decade of
seclusion, a civil war brings wounded villagers to his doorstep begging for medical help
for their war wounds. The doctor declines. He refuses to aid them--he has given up
practicing medicine--showing his bitterness over being driven from business years
earlier by the leaf storm of banana companies that stirred through the area like a
terrible storm and then left, leaving the doctor locked behind his meaningless four
walls and door.

A concluding main point comes when the
colonel, the daughter and the grandson gather for the funeral procession, fearing the
promised reprisal of revenge from the towns people in retaliation for the doctor's
neglect of the wounded soldiers years earlier. To their surprise, the procession
proceeds unmolested by angry villagers. The villagers have forgotten to be angry about
the neglect from the man they have twice before forgotten, like the banana companies
have forgotten Macondo: forgotten when they left him for the company doctors; forgotten
again when they shed their bits of anger about the wounded
soldiers.