Word: carlotta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Carlotta reappears at the end in a hot tub, telling Suwelo how she became a new-age musician, it is hard to believe she can have any important role to play. Yet Walker says the four "all vaguely realize they have a purpose in each other's lives. They are a collective means by which each of them will grow...
...other couple, the musician Arveyda and his Latin American wife Carlotta, split up when Arveyda has an affair with Carlotta's mother, Zede, and runs away to South America with her. He comes back, but in the meantime, Carlotta is able to have an affair with Suwelo...
Another large problem with character is that Carlotta receives almost no attention. Her story opens up the book and she plays an important role at the end, but in between there is almost no notice of her, except to show her as Suwelo's lover. She gets less of a chance to reveal her character to the reader than the other three protagonists and they do not get much...
...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
LEGEND has it that Eugene O'Neill's wife, Carlotta, was told never to disturb her husband at work and to leave his meals on a tray outside the door. Once, seeing three days' worth of food still sitting untouched, she anxiously opened the door to find Gene lying prostrate on the floor, weeping. He had just finished writing Long Day's Journey Into Night, the work in which he purged the ghost of his own family memories. The Lowell House production of O'Neill's masterpiece is a faithful and worthwhile rendering of that exquisite agony...