Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Cyyanide Poisoning

In the novel, Marquez has used his language skills to paint love as not always being a good thing. An example of this use can be found on the very first page, when Dr. Urbino compares the scent of cyanide to the fate of requited love. Now for some this may not mean anything, but later on the author writes that Doctor Urbino’s friend Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, who has died due to self-inflicted cyanide poisoning. Marquez is describing how love can be a poison and of how deadly it is. Something that’s even more interesting about cyanide poisoning is the symptoms that accompany it: weakness, giddiness, headaches, vertigo, and confusion just to name a few. Some of these could be related to love and its aftereffects. Everyone reacts to a breakup differently, whether it be physically or emotionally. Now back to the sentence itself; since poisoning eventually leads to death the author is trying to tell us that unrequited love almost always
Again Marquez uses a metaphor when Florentino has an encounter with Fermina and goes home sick. We can see it here “…. he had the weak pulse, the hoarse breathing, the pale perspiration of a dying man […..] To conclude once again that explicitly drive the point that love is destructive and is never always a good thing. I can’t help but wonder if Marquez thinks love to be sort of a sorry joke as if he kind of likes to look down on people who fall in love considering the fact that he was 61 when this book was released. It’s like he’s writing about his own experience as a lover. Writers can draw upon their own experience when writing realistic fiction; that’s what makes it so realistic. Marquez has many pearls of wisdom hidden throughout the entire book. Usually when a character opens their mouth for dialogue they have said something either useful or meaningful. On page 168 we have a dialogue between Uncle Leo and