Abstract: García Márquez, as a representative of the Latin American magic realism writer, takes power and solitude as the two dominant themes in literary writing. His novel The Autumn of the Patriarch is a dialectical interpretation of such themes in “code”type of writing. The logic of the "code" is portrayed as follows: the power is implemented by creating a mirror image, and once the mirror image produces a reflection, it will highlight  "solitude of power"; as being more solitude, power will get more strongly to remove the solitude, whereas the mirror image will further lead power to a deeper level of solitude. Therefore, a clan leader, a symbol of “totalitarianism” in Latin America, ultimately turns into a power alienation in such a paradox.