Anabel is smart and beautiful. She is very brave. She can face the boys who bully her without fear, and she can also get back the toys that he took from Achille Karachi, who is feared by everyone. Unfortunately, after graduating from primary school, she wanted to continue studying, but her father threw her out of the window and broke her arm. From then on, she can only fight against her own destiny.
Elena is a good girl. Her intelligence is not as obvious as that of Anabel. She is diligent, tenacious, practical and likable. At the same time, she is careful, keeps an objective distance from others, observes everything around her from the perspective of a bystander, and rarely conflicts with others. What I try my best to do is to escape from this community and strive for self-protection. She not only envied Anabel's learning talent and superhuman determination, but also secretly imitated Anabel. Her only rebellion in the first season was to insist on going to school. Fortunately, she has a wise father who supports her to continue her studies despite the heavy burden at home, but asks her to do her best in her studies. From then on, it was doomed that her and Anabel's life would be completely different.
The key for two girls with different personalities to become close friends is that they can find the qualities they don't have from each other. Elena has always envied Anabel's intelligence, courage and determination, while Anabel is actually secretly jealous of Elena's popularity. At the end of the first season, Anabel said to Elena when trying on the wedding dress before the wedding, "Everyone thinks you are a good boy and I am a bad boy." In fact, she has always been jealous of Elena. It has been like this since Elena was praised by the teacher in the first grade class of primary school and threw a paper ball with ink on it. Later, Elena got the opportunity to continue her studies and travel to the island. Now she has the opportunity to publish articles. In Anabel's view, Elena always seems so lucky, and there are always people who care about her growth. And myself, a person, is always struggling, struggling, struggling alone, but I have no such good luck.
It suddenly occurred to me that the book review in the original book "Only a woman like you will know these ugly secrets". The friendship between women is "love each other and kill each other". Therefore, Anabel regards Elena as another extension of himself. She tried her best to keep Elena studying and get the best grades.
In fact, any work of art is inseparable from the background color and historical context behind it. These two girls were born in 1944, when the whole world was undergoing great changes, including Italy. In this work, Anabel's beauty is actually the awakening of her keen female consciousness. Anabel is clever and charming, and the boys in the whole block are fascinated by her. She could have made her life very smooth. But she is always very creative. When she married Stefano and found that he only regarded himself as a "man's accessory" and a "fertility tool", her heart was desperate. So she deliberately angered Stefano and made him hit himself. After she became pregnant, she deliberately made extra efforts to have an abortion. These are actually her self-struggle as a new woman. After witnessing the tragic experience of Anabel, Elena finally woke up.
The description of human nature in this play is very complicated and true. Sometimes I feel that the author presents the characters to us almost naked. In this 66-year-long friendship, the two girls forged an extraordinary friendship that lasted longer than love and was deeper than family ties. Even if two people quarrel and betray each other, nothing can separate them except old age and death. If this relationship is broken, they will fall into an absolute loneliness. Grow up together and become a fusion of each other's other selves. This friendship with girls is enviable.