The Rose Tattoo | Themes

Pride
One of Serafina’s defining characteristics is her pride. She is excessively proud of her husband, Rosario, and seems to think that his glory reflects on her. This is shown in her boasting. She boasts about Rosario’s beauty, virility, and family. She claims, for example, that he was a baron in Sicily, though few believe her.

While on one level, Serafina’s boastful pride is ridiculous and humorous, on another, it constitutes the play’s nod at classical Greek tragedy. In classical tragedy, the hero always has a significant tragic flaw, and hubris, or...


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