After learning this, Fermina’s father requests a meeting with Florentino, although he is shocked to discover that Fermina knows little or nothing about her suitor. As punishment, School Superior Sister Franca de la Luz expels her. One day, Fermina is caught writing a secret letter to Florentino at her school, the Academy of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin. After a period of doubt, Fermina responds positively to his letter and ultimately agrees to marry him. Although the two of them have never spoken, Florentino is convinced of his love and, after many months of waiting, succeeds in handing her a declaration of love through her aunt and guardian, Escolástica. As a young man, though, he falls in love with Fermina Daza, a young upper-middle-class woman who lives under the control of her tyrannical father Lorenzo Daza. Florentino Ariza, a telegraph operator and the illegitimate son of Tránsito Ariza, is considered an ideal suitor in his social circle. Love in the Time of Cholera, set in the 1870s in an unnamed city in the Caribbean, examines the meaning of love through the intertwined lives of Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, and Dr.
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