Love in the Time of Cholera
Characters in Love in the Time of Cholera
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Florentino Ariza
A telegraph clerk and poet who spends decades devoted to Fermina Daza while rising through the River Company of the Caribbean, pursuing many affairs along the way.
Fermina Daza
A headstrong, convent-educated young woman who rejects Florentino's early courtship under her father's pressure and marries the physician Juvenal Urbino instead.
Supporting characters
Dr. Juvenal Urbino
An aristocratic, Paris-trained physician devoted to modernizing the city and eradicating cholera, whose marriage to Fermina Daza shapes the novel's first half.
Lorenzo Daza
Fermina's domineering, self-made father, a mule trader whose questionable dealings built his fortune and who forcibly ends her romance with Florentino.
Aunt Escolástica
Fermina's aunt and chaperone, who secretly carries letters between the young lovers until her brother Lorenzo sends her away for it.
Hildebranda Sánchez
Fermina's cousin from Valledupar, who hosts her during a formative visit away from her father's household and shares her own romantic entanglements.
Leona Cassiani
A sharp, resourceful clerk Florentino helps rescue and employ at the River Company, who rises within it and becomes his closest confidante.
Tránsito Ariza
Florentino's devoted mother, a pawnshop keeper who shelters her illegitimate son and nurses him through his heartbreak over Fermina.
América Vicuña
A teenage relative placed in Florentino's care as his ward while she attends school, during his later years working at the River Company.