to live with Florentino; he is her guardian while she is in school. They have a sexual relationship, and upon failing her exams after her rejection by Florentino, she kills herself.  Her suicide illustrates the selfish nature of Florentino's love for Fermina.Setting[සංස්කරණය]The story takes place in an unnamed port city somewhere in the Caribbean, near the Magdalena River. While the city remains unnamed throughout the novel, descriptions of it lead one to the conclusion that it must be Cartagena,  in Bolívar, Colombia, where García Márquez spent his early years. The city is divided into such sections as "The District of the Viceroys" and "The Arcade of the Scribes." The novel encompasses the half century roughly between 1880 and 1930.[2] The city’s "steamy and sleepy streets, rat-infested sewers, old slave quarter, decaying colonial architecture, and multifarious inhabitants" dot the text and mingle amid the lives of the characters.[3]Locations within the story include:The house F