A Rent question

[kaylle]

[I need another Rent icon]

A question for this story, which I'm ashamed to admit I'm working on again ;).

Comments

[pgwfolc]

Mimi doesn't have goals. Mimi lives in the moment. She's a free spirit. What she wants is to be happy, full, alive.

In a sense, she does want to dance. Just not necessarily literally.

Maybe, with Roger, she settled down a bit. No... not settled. Matured. Remember, in the play, she's a teenager. One who's lived through quite a lot, but one who has yet to fully develop. (Not that we ever fully develop. Life means change. But you know what I mean

[brianamj]

Ditto what Paul said. She also wants to forget. That one bit in Out Tonight, where she's talking about the nevers and maybes. She came from a very depressed area, probably the slums or ghetto. She's fallen into the trap of finding ways to live in the moment and forget the past.