Journal #7 Blood Wedding

The first character that I see being very miserable is the mother. She is miserable not only because of her husband and son's deaths, but because her new daughter in law has ran off with Leonardo, of the Felix family who killed her loved ones. Expresses this anger by violent break outs where she talks about how knives and men are bad, and instead look towards the future of having female grandchild has her coping mechanism for dealing with this stress. I think one of the biggest reasons why she is miserable is because she has no control over her life and the way she wants to live it because so many people have interfered with her pursuit of happiness. The father is also miserable because he wants grandsons to take care of his land and is very excited when his daughter gets married because he wants her to have many kids. However, he becomes miserable when she runs away with Leonardo because his dream will never come true now that this has occurred. He expresses this in a state of denial, because at first he cannot believe that his daughter could do such a thing as run away from her husband. The bride is also miserable because she is forced into a marriage she does not want to be in. She expresses this with her dislike of the wedding and her emotion-less feel towards her husband. The only way that she can escape this is through follow Leonardo's charm and being with him instead of her husband. Finally, the wife is also miserable because her husband has run off. It's obvious that she's frustrated because the bride is another woman, but I also think that there is a deeper context. Leonardo runs off with a rich woman who is the wife's cousin- I think that can hit her hard because she probably feels worthless because of her husband's infidelity because she is not this young, rich woman. And to add more fuel to the fire, she is also the mother of his child and is pregnant with another baby. All of this added up? I'd probably be frustrated as well! It is clear as to why all of these above characters are definitely miserable.