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"Fermia Daza is a beautiful and haughty young woman. Despite her lack of family name, her father hopes that she will marry well. However, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermia and pursues her. More out of curiosity than anything else, she accepts his advances and soon the couple are secretly engaged. When Fermia's father finds out, he is furious and tries to keep the lovers apart, with no success. As Fermia grows older, however, she realizes that she does not love Florentino and breaks off the engagement, leaving Florentino in despair.
Fermia marries the doctor Juvenal Urbino. He is wealthy and from a good family, so that Fermia's father is thrilled. Fermia loves her husband but at times finds their long life together troubling and problematic, especially because of her husband's mother and sisters. Florentino, however, continues to pine for Fermia and never marries, even though he has numerous affairs. With time, he grows wealthy and known through his business ventures. When Fermia's husband dies, she is genuinely grieved. For Florentino, though, the event gives him the chance to hope that he can win Fermia back.
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A. A., Resident Scholar
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"Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fell in love as teenagers, but they were torn apart by her father because Florentino was from a poor family. For two years, they secretly communicated by telegraph while Fermina's father made her travel the countryside. When she comes back to town, however, she suddenly falls out of love with Florentino. She marries a wealthy doctor and they are married for 50 years until his accidental death. Florentino sleeps with a lot of women during those 50 years, but he is determined to be with Fermina someday, even if it means waiting until she is old and a widow. After her husband dies, he tries to seduce her all over again."
Jessica, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Lover is
- of a different social class
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- writer
Age:
- long lived adults
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- obsessed
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- homemaker
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 (an above average amount)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
City?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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