love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcía márquez

Over the next year, Florentino and Fermina slowly build a friendship via weekly visits and frequent letters. When she sees him at the memorial Mass on the anniversary of her husband's death, she thanks him for being there. Fermina is moved by them, so she does not send them back.

He takes this as an opportunity to write back to her, so he begins to write letters which are impersonal musings on life, love, aging, and death, unlike anything he has written before. He despairs for weeks until he receives a letter from Fermina filled with hate and anger. Urbino and declares his undying love, she is disgusted and throws him out.įlorentino, however, has waited too long to give up that easily. When Florentino approaches her at the vigil for Dr. Fermina thus is very distraught when he dies. They are happy for the most part-and certainly look happy to the public. Urbino falls in love with a patient for a dizzy four months, and he cannot live with his guilt. Fermina does not like the perfection necessary in the housekeeping and is too proud ever to admit culpability. They understand each other perfectly and depend on each other totally, but their love is not perfect. Urbino and Fermina build a comfortable marriage. But through all of this he never forgets Fermina, becoming more and more disturbed as he sees himself and Fermina aging, afraid that he will run out of time. He uses sexual love to soften his pain over Fermina, and over his lifetime he has 622 long-term love affairs. Thanks to his undying dedication to Fermina and the help of his friend Leona, he is able to rise to the top. Urbino to die, so that he could win back Fermina when the time came.įollowing his plan, Florentino gets a job in his dead father's riverboat company. Juvenal Urbino, he vowed to become as successful as he could while waiting for Dr.

Florentino became desperate, and when he found out that Fermina was going to marry Dr. But after returning from a trip that her father made her take in order to forget Florentino, Fermina found that she had no feelings for him, and her love for him was just an illusion. Florentino was Fermina's first love as teenagers, over a period of four years, they corresponded almost daily by mail, and they were engaged for most of that time. The two who are most affected are Fermina Daza, his widow, and Florentino Ariza, the man who has been waiting for him to die for fifty-one years. He is a highly successful doctor who has done much for the Caribbean city in which he lives, so his death has a great effect on the city. Love in the Time of Cholera opens on the day of Dr.

Love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcía márquez