As I look back on Love in the Time of Cholera I realize I was under the same spell Florentino enchanted 622 women with. Although, personally, I would never sleep with him because I am not attracted to scrawny, constipated men who dress in their dead father’s suits; emotionally, I was attached. Throughout the book, Florentino's loving words and outwardly caring nature grew on me leading me to pity him and give him the benefit of the doubt, when truthfully he doesn’t deserve it. Overall we have to admit that Florentino is a pretty creepy guy. In fact he should probably be in jail; some of the behavior he displays while waiting for his time with Fermina Daza to come is on the verge of criminal activity. He serenades her, and is put in jail for …show more content…
Stalking is only one of Florentino’s atrocious qualities, he is also self-obsessed.
Florentino is egotistical, and doesn’t realize how his actions affect others. He led many women on only to break their hearts, and is the cause of two women’s death which he denies the responsibility of. Florentino treats the majority of the 622 women he sleeps with as if they are meaningless animals, many of whose names are not even mentioned.
Florentino participates in different activities with so many women since it takes away his misery. Like in many situations when a person suffers a great loss they start participating in self destructive behaviors in order to dull their senses. Similarly to how Florentino uses sex in order to dull the pain Fermina has inflicted on him. Florentino becomes addicted to sex as it is the only thing that will cure his heartache, he realizes this a while after his heart has been broken when his virginity is taken from him by a mysterious women. “At the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit, which was that his illusory love for Fermina Daza could be replaced by an earthly passion,” (Marquez 143) from this point on he consistently engaged in this earthy passion with hundreds of