The Cuban Swimmer

I didn't really think that the play would actually be about someone swimming. I guess I was thinking that it was not going to be literal but figurative. I did like it though. Any story where the underdog wins is a great story to me. Margarita was a Cuban girl swimming in the Wrigley Invitational Women's Race to Catalina. It is a long duration of swimming that takes lots of determination. Luckily, she had her family behind her. Her dad was her coach, and although he may have been trying to vicariously live through Margo, Margo was proud to pull through and show that she could do it. Especially after it was mentioned by the press that the chance of her winning was a long shot, Margo realized that although she was at the verge of total exhaustion, it meant everything for her to "dig in" to find an inner energy that would pull her through to the finish line. It made me mad when the announcers were just denouncing her chances and it also made me mad when the family made it seem like Margo was lost forever. Maybe its because I have to have a happy ending. Although I know in reality happy is not always the outcome, in a story, when I become apart of some new adventure, then it has to be happy. If it isn't happy, then whose to say that truly exists. (I know that's a little far) I like how the author mixes in some Spanish dialogue. It allows one to imagine the setting of actually being in Cuba, make it more culturally real.