![]() ![]() The narrator and characters frequently describe their city as behind, "unchanging on the edge of time." We see, however, that this is not true-the city is always changing, but its seeming stillness reflects the relativity of time in the story. Fermina and Juvenal ride with the first airmail in a hot air balloon, and later a plane crashes into a town nearby. We see the river that Florentino travels twice change from lush jungle, overrun by animals and plants, to bare sand, with no wildlife, eroding quickly. The three main protagonists' obsessions with aging and with death also fit with this theme, in that we see both the different ways time affects people physically, and the different ways they deal with it mentally. Marquez shows us Juvenal Urbino's mental decline, Florentino Ariza's loss of hair and teeth, and Fermina Daza's acquisition of the smell of decay. The story spans half a century, and in that period we see the effects of time on people and their relationships-especially love-and its effects on places and cultures. ![]() Time is one of the most important themes in Love in the Time of Cholera, and it is closely entwined with almost all of the major themes. ![]()
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