Luisa Bellomy just turned 16. Like most 16 year old girls she has found, what she considers, love. Though she is perceived as crazy, I believe she is just in love. I mean honestly we all do crazy things when we’re in love. As El Gallo explains in Luisa’s introduction she has undergone change. We all take change differently and Luisa’s way is by just doing the first thing that comes to mind. Her feelings are so over the top, that when you first meet her you don’t want to get to know her. Luisa is so naïve, wanting to experience things that she has no idea about.
Luisa wants so much to be like the princesses in her novels that she develops an image of herself. She becomes vulnerable, sharing all of her deepest secrets, which later El Gallo uses to exploit her. In the song “Round and Round” her ignorance shows through. Luisa takes a first hand look through the mask of what the world is like. She perceives it as fun and exhilarating while wearing the mask, but when the costume of the world comes off, she comes to see the reality that the world isn’t like what she reads in books.
Luisa and I are very similar in that, we are both very positive, caring people. I don’t think I have ever been “in love” before, but I have imagined what it will feel like. I imagine that when you fall “in love” everything will stop and, like the characters’ tableau in the show, you will feel like you can take a step back and then you’ll just know. When you are with someone you love you feel like you can do anything. I think what Luisa is looking for the most is to just have someone that loves her, just as much as she loves everyone. She dreams of that perfect guy, who she thinks, is her mysterious bandit. I mean honestly, who doesn’t want the tall, handsome, mysterious, bad guy? We all have some kind of dream. Unfortunately, most of the time the mysterious, bad guy ends up being a jerk and we always go back to that sweet guy that we have known for a long time.
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