Rosa

I believe that Rosa refuses to admit that Magda is dead because she is morning the loss of her daughter. My friend had just told me a story about how her friends mother died and for the longest time the girl would go around acting like nothing happened. At the mothers funeral the girl wasn't even sad. She just waited around for her mom to come back home. She could never face the fact that her mother had actually died and wasn't going to come home. I think that is how Rosa is. She doesn't want to believe that her daughter is dead. She writes to her daughter still and even speaks to her like she is alive. It holds Rosa back because she isn't able to confront that her daughter had in fact died and wasn't going to come back to her. Rosa isn't able to move on with her life which becomes a huge factor in her American life. She isn't able to look past it and not forget but come to terms with what has actually happened with her daughter. She sits around and writes to Magda as if she's alive and doesn't communicate with the outside world because she's stuck in a world where her daughter is still alive.