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Rosa Andrade, Marisa Perkins is the central character on whom all her
family relies. These two women are the perfect opposite of what will be
the "working girl" of the Nineties. Because Marisa belongs to
these women who prefer to stay in the shade and find their happiness
only in the general brightness of the family.
Marisa
is initially the perfect wife of John. Marisa supports him the best than
she can in all the situations, including when he crosses a long and
difficult layoff. And so that everyone can continue to live normally,
she agrees to make many overtime. Moreover, the only time when Marisa is
opposed to her husband, it is still and always for the family harmony.
As John rejects Joe at the moment of his release from prison, Marisa
prefers to drive out John from the family home, rather seeing him at the
origin of the fall of all the family.
Because
more than everything in the world, Marisa deeply loves each one of her
children. When during John's bad moments, she discovers she is again
pregnant (with Jade), she refuses the abortion, preferring this new
child than an easier life. And
it is because she loves Jade that she accepts to see her trying her
chance in Hollywood. It is also because she loves Amy that she accepts
without any condition her return in Santa Barbara at the time of Joe's
false death. She opens her the door of her house, without harassing her
with questions, whereas Amy lands pregnant from a man who swears that he
cannot be the father of her child. And so that the family remains always
united, she decides to install a nursery in Joe's former bedroom.
It is
certainly because Joe occupies a particular place in her heart that her
supports to him will very strong. She disavowed him at any time. That it
is throughout the lawsuit, or during these five years of prison, never
Marisa has ceased to love her son. She continues to love him and to
support him towards everybody : against her husband, against the
Capwells, and against near of all the inhabitants of Santa Barbara. And
at his return from prison, she welcomes him the opened arms, ready to
take again their life where they had left it. Her total supports towards
her son cost her considerable sacrifices, like her separation with John.
But on the other hand, he offered her so many pleasures : the
reconciliation between John and Joe, the resurrection of Joe, and
especially the wedding of her little Joe with the beautiful Kelly
Capwell. However, Marisa will end up leaving Santa Barbara after the
death of John and of Joe. Nevertheless, she will come back to make a
small appearance at the time of the wedding of Amy with Brick Wallace,
before leaving again after the feast days of Christmas 1985.
Of
all the women who crossed Santa Barbara, Marisa was
perhaps the one who had the harder life : she saw her husband John dying
at the time of the earthquake; her son Joe has been imprisoned for a
murder he had not commited, before being murdered by a serial killer
during a hostage crisis; her daughter Amy died in the accidental
explosion of Buzz's Place. Fortunately, she always has Jade, her last
daughter, she certainly withdrew with far from Santa Barbara, after her
final departure at the end of 1985.
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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