Karma: The Bad Girl Part II

Ricardo was an intelligent man, but also very stupid too. He was blinded by the “love” of the Bad Girl. Through thirty some years the Bad Girl had entered and exited Ricardo's life dramatically. The Bad Girl was deserving of no name other than just that, the Bad Girl. She deceitful, cruel, and cold, yet Ricardo loved her. Why did he love her so much? Ricardo loved her because she never loved him the way he loved her; the way he wanted her to love him. Ricardo wanted to win the game, the trophy being that he won't the Bad Girl's love once and for all. At the end of the story Ricardo and the Bad Girl were together in their later years; some might say that he finally won and captured what he had desired his whole life, but I don't see it that way.

The Bad Girl treated people cruelly and believed, like I said last week that happiness could only come from money. She stole, deceived, and betrayed many people. I truly feel that she had no feelings and she certainly could not be remorseful. She was a manipulator which enabled her to be the thief that she was, both of money and of heart. She was always greedy from the beginning of the novel and she was also selfish. She sought out men who would be vulnerable to her lies and open to her fabricated stories of the many lives she lived.

Karma is a powerful term that many people refer to in today's society. We also think of the phrase "what goes around comes around". Karma is what determines a person’s fate. We constantly are made aware of our actions for just this reason. We hope, as humans, that if we do well in return good will be done to us. When we do badly, we often see that our fortune, connections or relationships are not as good as they could be. I would never wish harm or poor health upon any person, in real life or in a book, but as I see it, the cancer determined the fate of her actions.

I also believe that her reasoning in seeing Ricardo at the end was for purely selfish reasons. She knew she destroyed the man, closest in age, who loved her tremendously regardless of all her wrong doings. Ricardo, in my opinion, had much insecurity. At the end, he did take the Bad Girl back, but he knew it wouldn’t be for long; however, this time when she left it would be the last, it would be final. At this point, Ricardo had lost her so many times that this final time would almost be a relief to him.

I don’t feel that Ricardo had very good luck. I think that he was a good person who had been handed a bad deck of cards when it came to the game of love. Everyone has some heartache and pain, but I felt that even when Ricardo tried to rid the Bad Girl of his mind she some how reunited herself with him; whether it was on purpose or by coincidence.