... ages in particular through the character of Florentino Ariza. In presenting Florentino's life-long wait for Fermina Daza, Marquez interweaves in an ever-shifting pattern a sharply etched realism in the ordinary events in Florentino's life in descriptive detail. These events contain dreamlike elements and culminate in a fairy tale ending. Marquez examines two sides of love, the mundane love between the rational ... to the kind of love that Florentino and Fermina have had for each other, characterized especially by its timelessness. In summary, Marquez has successfully used magical realis...

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