Who Is Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

In Elena Ferrante’s novel “My Brilliant Friend,” two young girls named Elena and Lila grow up together in a poor neighborhood where momentous changes occur in their lives. Lila is a unique girl who struggles on her day-to-day life to fit into the standards of others, whereas Elena tried to be more like Lila and sometimes tried to be superior than Lila when most opportunities were handed to her. The ability to gain power over others makes one be successful; Lila’s bravery and humbleness demonstrates her capability to have gain power over everyone else. At the beginning of the novel, Lila shows her bravery and willingness by intervening into Don Achilles property. Lila and Elena got closer when they both went to the stairs of Don Achilles, …show more content…
Lila do not think of herself to be better than anyone, in fact, she knew she was inferior and felt like she was not going to be successful and Elena was planning to be since there was more potential in her because she continued school. Due to her amount of free time she began depicting shoes for the business to go further and be achievable due to the lack of people they received the how broke they were economically. Lila did not think the shoes she drew were the best or that it would make the business go beyond; she only wanted her family to be stable and with the shoes she drew could help a little for them to get more customers. When she made the shoes to show them to her dad without him knowing she made them, she was hoping of him to like the way it looked and felt and to approve of it for the business. Lila did not continue on doing more shoes; she did not gloat to show off to Elena or anyone else who knew about them. She was humble and went far after she married the man who got bought the shoes -- the man was wealthy and did have love for her. Lila’s humbleness made her go further in life and gained power over those who underestimated her and doubted her