Hadn’t she given up so much already?
When Didi, Sean and Finn’s mother, meets a man who wants to marry her, she quickly forgets that she is a mother of two underage sons. The orthodontist, Didi’s fiancé, doesn’t like kids, “especially boys who would surely run around getting drunk and high, knocking off convenience stores and knocking up girls, or worse, sitting around and getting in in the way”. Are Didi’s boys like that? Of course not! Calm and responsible Sean does everything possible to help his mother and little brother to cope with grief after his father’s death; Finn is quiet and dreamy, not to mention that he doesn’t do any harm. Didi doesn’t even try to defend them, she prefers to arrange her life. She asked them whether she hadn’t “given up so much already” as if she had ever did it. Didi proves that bringing a child into this world is not enough to be a good parent.
There will be boys who will tell you’re beautiful, but only a few see you.
Roza’s grandmother is a wise woman who has been always trying to teach Roza a useful lesson. She sees that Roza is an extremely good-looking girl, who chooses the wrong boyfriends. They appreciate her beauty, but are not really interested in her. When Roza’s babcia says that “there will be boys who will tell you’re beautiful, but only a few see you”, she means that it is easy to like beauty and appreciate it, but it is not an easy type of work to love a person with all his/her flaws. When Roza cuts her face from her ear to mouth, the Scare Crow doesn’t want her anymore, but when Sean sees her, he is just happy that she is alive and a red mark on her face doesn’t scare him off.
Who do you think you are?
Although Roza is an attractive young woman, who easily attracts attention, she is not happy about it at all. All of her previous relationships brought her only bitter disappointment and made her question her own worth. Every boyfriend of her asked her the same question, “who do you think you are?”. According to them, she is just a pretty face, she has no right to have her own dreams and ambitions, she should give up on everything for them. She breaks up with them, but it doesn’t mean that their bitter words don’t wound her. In spite of the fact that they are no longer present in her life, she continues to ask herself, “who do you think you are?”.
