Rochelle In Christine Granado's The Bride

The character in a story is the main foundation in any story, essay, or any other form of writing. These characters not only give the writing a purpose, but present the irony, symbols, and conflicts in the stories. Without the main character there would not be any sort of writing. The main character may also be dynamic, which means the change as the story goes on, or they may be flat, which meants that they don’t change. From the many stories we read in our class, I fell in love with the character Rochelle, from the story “The Bride” by author Christine Granados. I can relate to Rochelle, because just like her I day dream of my wedding day. Even though both of us share the way we think about how our weddings should be, Rochelle goes a bit over board by actually planning her wedding as if it was days away. Although she had such high expectations for her wedding her views and standards changed as life hits her harder than a baseball player …show more content…
Rochelle still believes that her wedding should not be from the Hispanic tradition and that her wedding should be as elegant as the ones in those in magazines that she would read about. At this point in Rochelle’s life she is beginning to understand how hard it actually is to find the right guy to be with. She had a list that she would go through listing potential grooms. Rochelle eventually gives up on the list and throws it away. Although she dropped the list, she kept a mental list of her exes. Showing that she isn’t quite the dynamic character yet, but she did call making the physical list “childish” which shows a bit of a dynamic character. Granados writes the following in her story “The Bride” to show that Rochelle is begging to change the way she does things. “ She kept up with her lists as usual, but stopped physically adding to them in tenth grade- dropped and discarded as ‘too childish’”