Cause and Effect of Women

Fermina Daza, in the novel Love in the Time of Cholera, can often be seen as the stereotypical woman. Her quick temper, undying love, changing mood, and using of her lover for personal amusement are all qualities that the stereotypical, confusing woman possesses and that are all shown through the character of Fermina Daza. While the reader comes to love this character as an interesting person, her stereotypical female attributes lead the reader to a further understanding of what love is to many females and the power that such a woman has over the males in her life.
Many of the frustrations in the marriage of Fermina Daza and Dr. Urbino stem from Fermina Daza’s uncontrollably quick temper which stand to explain how women can be immensely infuriating to men in times of argument. The scene where Fermina Daza took her anger out on her husband for reminding her of her forgetful ness and exaggerating the time in the process, caused a simple issue over whether there was or was not soap to be a great rift in their marriage. Because Fermina Daza was determined to be proven correct and would not back down, knowing she was fully wrong, she shows the unchangeable stubbornness that women possess. She uses this power to make her husband miserable and therefore his love for her overpowers his frustration. During this argument, the reader sees how frustrating women can truly be and how two sided their thoughts commonly are. Though it is obvious she loves her husband, her will power and anger get in the way of her love and she would rather control her husband than control her emotions, as many women seem to do. While it is infuriating to men to be put through the metaphorical washing machine in order to make up with the one they love, women consistently force men to compromise because women know the power love has over their husbands and lovers.
When a reader can see the truth behind a woman’s mind as she seems to fall in love but her mood and mind consistently changes, the reader can understand a man’s frustration and obsession with love and irritation with his lover. While Fermina plays with the heart of her lover, Florentino, thinking that she loves him more than anything in the world and knowing that all she needs is to marry things man, she pulls his heart and his emotions closer to her own. Even when a year and a great distance separated the two, their adolescent love kept them from being far apart. But at the moment when the two can legitimately be together and married, Fermina realizes, as it seems many women do, that she was in love with the idea of love and the idea of having an admirer, not necessarily in love with the man himself. Her obsession with adolescent love and her toying with a man in order to fulfill her own naive emotional needs sends Florentino into a state of irrevocable love for the woman he fell so madly for from the beginning. Her hops and leading aspirations for their future together never left his mind and he never recovered that part of his heart that he had lost. The mood change and feeling change of selfish women can terrorize a man’s life forever, though Fermina never intended this to be the case, she destroyed his love life forever.
Women are so highly influential in the lives of men that they can overpower men’s emotions and toy with heir hearts. Women have mood changes, mind changes and fluctuated feelings that lead men into falling for them and lead them into an irreversible trap known as love that even the conniving woman did not understand she was making. While these traps cause many men pain, they also cause turmoil and confusion in the mind of women who commonly do not even know the disasters they are causing, as in the case of Fermina (662).