Other characters
Luigi
Luigi, is Lucia鈥檚 father. He gives her up to Massimo and Rosinella when he is widowed. We feel sympathy for Luigi but this quickly diminishes as the play progresses.
Soon he remarries and starts a new family in Italy. There is no indication that Luigi accepts responsibility for Lucia when she is a child.
Luigi has some key character traits:
- Selfish - He exploits his war torn village in order to gain sympathy and possessions from Massimo.
- Lazy. While Lucia clears things from the table Luigi does not lift a finger to help
- Traditional. He attempts to impose traditional Italian ways on Lucia (an arranged marriage that will bring his family more land, a life of carrying out household tasks) and this threatens the romance between Lucia and Hughie.
Ironically, Luigi鈥檚 scheming and lazy character personifies the traits Rosinella complains about in Scottish people.
Stasio Pedreschi, Massimo鈥檚 father
Although never seen, it is clear that 鈥楧addy鈥 Pedreschi holds the position of head of the family. He is obviously not pleased that Massimo has set up his own shop. Franco feels the need to hide what he is doing from him 鈥 asking Massimo and Rosinella to cover for him when he is out with Bridget.
Everyone is expected to look after and serve him 鈥 so when Franco goes off to war, he tells Rosinella to keep cutting his toenails
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Massimo鈥檚 monologue presents his father in a very different light. He comes across as a small - He was that wee looking
and scared old man -
I can still feel his nails digging into me, he was holding on that tight
Stasio represents traditional Italian values 鈥 the old ways that Franco in particular, but also Lucia, Massimo and Rosinella react against and develop away from.