Love in the Time of Cholera | Dr. Juvenal Urbino
Soon after Fermina returns from her journey and spurns Florentino she is courted by the town's most eligible bachelor, Dr. Juvenal Urbino. He is a wealthy, refined physician who spends time overseas and prefers European ways. Well born and dapper, Urbino typifies the typical hero of a nineteenth-century romantic novel, and when Fermina does not respond, Urbino is inflamed. Just as Fermina has reasons other than love for deciding to marry him, Urbino is rational and unromantic in his desire to acquire Fermina as his wife. He knows that this lovely, charming, somewhat haughty young woman...
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