Werther vs. Florentino Ariza
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In my opinion, there is a close parallelism between Werther, from Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, and Florentino Ariza, from Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the time of cholera”. Both of these characters love a woman that they can’t have and in both cases the woman that they love gets married to another man. However, Werther and Florentino face their problems in completely different ways: Werther kills himself, whereas Florentino perseveres and fights for the woman he loves.