When I first started reading this book it was extremely confusing and hard to follow. I had only a faint idea of what was happening. After reading further it was easier to understand what was happening, but nothing was explained with a deeper background, which probably means that this book will be answering "the background" questions later on.
After reading this section, I think that a big theme is aging and death. The very beginning of this book starts with the death of Dr. Urbino's friend, Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, who had committed suicide. He had supposably done that because he was afraid of getting really old or aging. Another event that has to do with death is when Dr. Urbino had to have all of his wife's animals killed because a dog had infected many of them with rabies. The last thing that was extremely surprising was that Dr. Urbino himself died when trying to get his parrot. All I could think of at that point was, who kills off the main character in the beginning of the book? I realized that Dr. Urbino is probably not the main character even though he was in the first chapter.
After realizing that Dr. Urbino was not the main character I figured that Florentino Ariza was the main character because of how extensive the author explained his background. Florentino seems to be an obsessive man because he stalked Fermina Daza when he was young and after he had an affair with her, he thought about her everyday for over fifty years. Thats pretty creepy if you ask me. He was so in love that his godfather said that he had cholera, but he only had love sickness and he almost lost his job because of his love.
Why do you think that Fermina just decides that her love for Florentino is an illusion?
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