Inevitably, the smell of bitter almonds always reminds him of his fate after love is thwarted. When "Love in the Time of Cholera" begins with such a sentence, it reveals that it is no less meaningful than "One Hundred Years of Solitude". When potassium cyanide communicates with love, cholera also becomes a lingering ghost of love. Love is exhausted in Marquez's writing, and cholera gradually develops its own metaphors. 1. The Period of Cholera

Just as "Metaphors of Disease" explains the literary metaphor of tuberculosis, it is believed that a tuberculosis patient is a person consumed by passion, and passion consumes his body. "The Period of Cholera" "Love" also has a similar understanding of "cholera". Whenever people in the novel encounter love, they often show symptoms of "cholera". The contagiousness of cholera, the inner torment, and the physical pain are all very similar to the torture of love. And the wariness and alienation of people caused by "cholera", and the inner fear caused by "love" have the same goal. "Cholera" has become lovesickness and a metaphor for emotion. When this connection is successfully established, it is the novel's continued use of the traditional "lovesickness" motif and its further expansion and transcendence. 2. Love

Love is the exact object of exploration in this novel. Marquez has long been focused on the eternal proposition of love. Even his last novel? "Memoirs of a Bitter Prostitute" spans The love of age also appears in the main body of the novel again.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" describes the long-lasting bond between Ariza and Fermina, even though Fermina left Ariza when she was young and married someone else; Indulging in all kinds of love and affection during the long years, they finally embarked on the road of eternal love for "a lifetime" on a boat hung with a symbol of "cholera" when their lives were about to end. "Love" and "cholera" are also completely connected together, becoming symbols that cannot be separated.