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Jeremiah de Saint-Amour
Florentino Ariza’s mother is a hard-working, compassionate person who cares deeply for her illegitimate son’s well-being. She proves dedicated to supporting her son’s romantic endeavors and plays an important role in comforting him when he experiences disappointment. After initially encouraging him to court Fermina Daza, after recognizing the feeling of true love in her son, she invites Widow Nazaret to her house so that Florentino can have sex with her in order to forget his unrequited love for Fermina. At the same time, Tránsito uses her savings to rent and then buy the house she lives in, so that Florentino might one day be able to marry Fermina and have children. In this way, Tránsito reiterates her support of her son’s idealized love, thus proving that she, too, might harbor romantic inclinations—and, most importantly, that she will support her son no matter what. At the end of her life, Tránsito loses her memory and is unable to take care of herself, thus exemplifying the fear and humiliation that old age can bring.
Tránsito Ariza Quotes in Love in the Time of Cholera
The Love in the Time of Cholera quotes below are all either spoken by Tránsito Ariza or refer to Tránsito Ariza. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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After Florentino Ariza saw her for the first time, his mother knew before he told her because he lost his voice and his appetite and spent the entire night tossing and turning in his bed. But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.
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“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can,” she said to him, “because these things don’t last your whole life.”
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Tránsito Ariza Quotes in Love in the Time of Cholera
The Love in the Time of Cholera quotes below are all either spoken by Tránsito Ariza or refer to Tránsito Ariza. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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After Florentino Ariza saw her for the first time, his mother knew before he told her because he lost his voice and his appetite and spent the entire night tossing and turning in his bed. But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.
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“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can,” she said to him, “because these things don’t last your whole life.”
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