Love in the Time of Cholera

Main Ideas

• Eternal love and devotion, demonstrated through decades of separation and trials.
• Aging and death as inevitable aspects of life around which the key events of the novel revolve.
• The influence of social class and economic status on personal relationships and opportunities.
• Critique of society and exposure of its flaws through the behavior and fates of the characters.
• Use of magical realism to emphasize the surreal and magical aspects of everyday life.
• The struggle between social norms and personal happiness, between duty and desire.