After reading, “Love in The Time of Cholera”, I came to conclusion that Florentino Ariza is a perverted wanton. Gabriel Marquez examines two opposing ideas of “love”. On the one hand, he looks at the love of a wife for a husband she did not initially care for, but who she comes to love after the marriage as they get to know each other. This is a much more sedate period after the initial wild …showed first 75 words of 332 total…

…showed last 75 words of 332 total…It is ironic that the only women Florentino fails to seduce are those who he actually falls in love with. Along the way, Florentino encounters all forms of love – happy marriages, failed marriages, prostitutes, young girls needing a father figure, those desperate just to be held and loved by anybody … the list goes on and on. In conclusion, Florentino Ariza does not come out to be this romantic guy but instead a sexually perverted man.