Marquez's Message

I think that Marquez's message and the style of the way the book reads and unfold is similar that of Updike's Rabbit Run. Rabbit Run is a cyclic book in that there are many trappings so to speak. Updike uses a common animal and that animal's style of life to illustrate the main character and his habits. Similarly Marquez uses the relationship of the trapped love and the faded love to describe a plague of love that only escapes and is cured through honesty and being true to thyself. Marquez uses the plague Cholera to suggest this idea to the reader. It is then that in both books we as readers can actually anticipate where the book will lead based on previous knowledge about common creatures like a rabbit or an influenza such as the plague.