Lily is surely breaking gender roles, isn't she? Instead of being a ruin-everything damsel in distress that just needs a man to save the day, she's more of a ruin-everything self-satisfied woman. Who doesn't need a man, but likes having one around anyway.
My impression of her was that she wasn't really interested in Ricardo. He was interested in her for that exact reason, just the simple fact that she didn't really care. She seemed to think he was pathetic and had absolutely no sympathy for him. She left him, constantly, and went to do things with her life. That's fine and all, and I'm not saying that she's wrong for having a life, but she's coming back because he's safe. She knows that Ricardo will just blindly love her anyway, regardless of what she does. If no one else wants her, and she's sure of that, she'll stay with him. Until then, he gets dropped as soon as someone else comes along.
Another thing that I found interesting was that she doesn't really seem to have a name. She's called Lily in the beginning, but Ricardo goes on to call her many different names, that typically have to do with status. A lot of them also have "ex" as if that's all she's really amounted to for him. Someone's who's just gone. Who does something, and then gets up and goes right to the next thing.To me, it feels like he's conscious that she isn't interested. And maybe he's not exactly thrilled to be with her either, but is just there for simplicity's sake as well.
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