The Cart Characters

February 11, 2013.
The road
Gabriela Aviles
Spanish
Mrs. Gonzalez
8-2 #4
Description of the characters in the play La Carreta :
Don Chago:
He was the grandfather of the family. He always maintained his joy, positivity,
and tranquility. He was even a very sweet and pampering grandfather to his
grandchildren. Of all the men who appear in the Carreta, Don Chago was the most
worthy, man, strong and wise. His behavior is distinguished from the common
cowardice, weakness, disappointment and failure shown by the other male characters
that appear in La Carreta. He had high hopes for his family when he moved from the
country to the city. However, he was fascinated by the land. He never decided to live in
the city although he was offered the opportunity. Then he decided to spend the last
years of his life in the Cueva del Indio at the age of seventy-three. He ends up
accompanied by loneliness and dies in La Cueva del Indio.
Mrs. Gabriela:
She is the woman who stands out the most in La Carreta. It is the center of the
family for which it fights every day, it is support above all. He was always the leading
character, strong, impregnable and confident. Despite everything he had to counteract
and challenge, he never lost subtlety, tenderness, softness and gentleness. Widowed,
fifty-five years old and with three children: Juanita, Chaguito and Luis, she is the most
worthy of respect and admiration of all the characters. She was compassionate to all the
characters.
Juanita:
He is the character for whom I faced the most problems, suffered the most,
changed the most and learned the most. Juanita, who was only nineteen years old at the
beginning, was a young girl in love, determined, healthy, dreamy, happy and lonely in
her fantasy bubble. When she moved to La Perla she was raped and became pregnant.
Ashamed and without any other remedy, she aborts to try to cover it up from Miguel,
whom she always loved. Because of this she falls into a terrible depression, she gets lost,
she feels miserable, alone, very sad, she has no help and then she tries to commit
suicide. Later, upon arriving in New York, she grows up and becomes a prostitute, trying
to make a living and improve herself. But in the end he learns the lesson of life,
becomes independent and shows his strength and the new person he is. She decides to
return to Puerto Rico to meet Miguel.
Luis:
A young adult, only twenty-four years old. It is said that he is the oldest in the
family regardless of his age. Since he had a depressing youth full of darkness, secrets,
fear, insecurities, loneliness, dreams and desires. He was the saddest, most tired
character and most frequently defeated than the others. He is not the son of the
marriage of Doña Gabriela and her deceased. Doña Gabriela was his foster mother. He
never felt enough because of his insecurities. That led him to be ambitious, dissatisfied,
empty and a man without direction.
He was always haunted by failure and frustration. Luis was not established, he could not
find what he wanted, he always changed jobs and homes because he was lost in what
was of minimal importance, money and ambition. This was the reason for his passion for
working day and night. He became so involved in those desires for superiority that he
took his family to New York. Where he worked in a boiler factory and also where he
died. Luis was a fan of machines and died in one of them while working.
Chaguito:
He was a very ambitious fifteen-year-old young man. Chaguito was always

thinking of ways to get money much like his older brother, Luis. But nevertheless he
avoided work and school, he was lazy. He had a great attachment to a rooster when
they lived in the country. He was always naughty, so much so that he even hid the
rooster since Luis was thinking of selling it, so he could take it to San Juan. He was very
smart and full of energy, but also very spoiled. For this same reason, he ignores his
mother's rabbits and allows himself to be influenced by the negative and incorrect
aspects of the society that surrounds him, which leads him to end up where he least
expected it, prison. Chaguito was arrested for stealing from Doña Gabriela.
Germana:
Forty-two year old lady. Very helpful as he helps the protagonists of La Carreta
pack during their moving process from the countryside to the city. Also very hospitable
when offering Don Chago lodging before he left for the cave. Germana was Chinita's
mother. She wanted Chinita to marry Luis but he denied her offer.
Miguel:
He was Don Tello's laborer and the boy with whom Juanita had an affair that
dared her to leave the countryside. He gave a small model of a cart to Juanita, which
helped her remember him throughout the story.
Mrs. Isabel:
Better known as Isa, she is Don Severo's wife. She is forty-four years old, tall and
thin. She has the characteristics of any woman from La Carreta, whether in the
countryside, suburbs or the Puerto Rican community of New York: rudeness, boldness,
talkativeness, vulgarity, insolence and passion. Distinguishing herself by being more
elegant, more refined, her best way of dressing and combing her hair, speaking and
being considered as if she were part of the “bourgeoisie” of the suburb. However, she
shows difficulties in pronouncing the correct form of nada and para with na' and pa'
and she had a whim, a love affair with Luis one night when he got drunk even though
she was married.
She did not take much importance to the matter since her husband had a mistress too.
She is not only Luis's aunt but also Martita's. Luis was crazy about Martita and wanted to
marry her, but Doña Isa prevented him from doing so due to her jealousy.
Matilda:
A thirty-five-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is a neighbor of the protagonists

when they live in the suburb of La Perla. It is feminine and provocative but vulgar at the
same time. She is a very daring woman with an easy life. Matilde thinks that all men are
equally animals, cowards and scoundrels, but she sleeps with everyone she can.
Lito:
Poor nine-year-old boy who was abused by his father. He was a “lousy”, lonely
and aimless child who sought the company, affection and care of Doña Gabriela. He was
always full of hope, desires and with the typical behavior of a child, but very sad and
helpless.
Paco:
A thirty-year-old blond Puerto Rican jíbaro with Spanish ancestry. He is native to

Morovis. He dresses well and is always neat and clean. He is just as frustrated as Luis. His
behavior is distinguished by being very romantic, kind and cheeky. He emigrated to
New York to find “freedom” since in Puerto Rico he tried to be a writer and journalist
but failed. He felt obligated to believe, write or agree with certain things and prohibited
from thinking and giving an opinion for himself. In New York he got a job as a radio
announcer on a Latin station because of his voice. He was single and felt very alone like
any Puerto Rican who leaves his family on the Island and misses them. That's why he
liked the idea of marrying Juanita because he felt that she could increase his desire to
write again. He also saw Juanita as different from all the other women he had met
before, it reminded him of Morovis.
Lidia:
A young twenty-six-year-old mother who was a neighbor of the protagonists in

New York. She had “olive” skin with very straight hair, tall and thin. She was very nice,
kind and feminine. Even though she was a widow and had a daughter, she was married
to Juan. She thinks about committing suicide just like Juanita because her husband left
her by committing suicide and she was tired of the circumstances she found herself in,
but she did not want to leave her only orphaned daughter.
Mr. Parking:
An American man of approximately forty years old, very tall and thin. He was a
very kind Jehovah's Witness who spoke Spanish fluently but at the same time very
insistent and annoying.
My favorite character was Doña Gabriela because I think that despite all of her children
having chosen the wrong path and having allowed herself to be defeated by the reality of life,
she remained with her head held high and did not give up on supporting them and moving
them forward. In any situation she was the only one to remain firm and strong. She was
affectionate and kind to all the characters regardless of whether there was something that
prevented her from doing so. She was not weak or rude like the rest of the women who
appeared in La Carreta. Doña Gabriela also never allowed herself to be humiliated or lose her
dignity and was very well respected. If Doña Gabriela existed I would like to meet her because I
think we would get along very well.

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February 11, 2013.

Description of the characters in the play La Carreta :

He was a very ambitious fifteen-year-old young man. Chaguito was always

A thirty-five-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is a neighbor of the protagonists

A thirty-year-old blond Puerto Rican jíbaro with Spanish ancestry. He is native to

A young twenty-six-year-old mother who was a neighbor of the protagonists in

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