Leonardo is the perfect example of an archetypical character. He is very self-centered, which is proven by his tendency to lie to his family and talk down to people. Both of these tendencies are illustrated when Leonardo reacts to the mother-in-law revealing that he was formerly engaged to the bride. "But I stopped seeing her! (To his Wife) Are you going to cry now? Stop it! Let's go see the child" (23). Leonardo blatantly lies about whether he is still seeing the bride, and then follows up the lie by commanding his wife not to cry. His tendencies to lie and talk down to people reveal his self-centeredness, which explains why he was greedy enough to ride of with another person's bride on their wedding day.
The bride is a copy of Leonardo in regards to their personality. She talks down to her maid and lies about knowing whether Leonardo had been by to see her or not. The maid, excited about the wedding, inquires about seeing what the wedding presents were. The bride responds by saying "Be quiet, I said! Let's talk about something else" (37). The deeming tone in the bride's dialogue indicates that she thinks higher of herself than she does of other people. Later on, when the maid expresses that she had seen Leonardo at her window last night, the bride responds by yelling "That's a lie! A lie! What would he come here for?" (38). Her blatant denial of the fact that she had been seeing Leonardo reflects Leonardo's insistence that he had not visited the bride. This, along with both of them having the tendency to talk down to people, shows that the bride's personality is a copy of Leonardo's. This allows Leonardo to persuade the bride to run away from her wedding with him, because there high egos and ability to lie allowed them to get away with it.
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