Did Roxane Deserve Their Love? - Iola's Cyrano post #1

Roxane didn't deserve Cyrano's love. Probably not Christian's, either, actually.

I don't know the nature of all of Cyrano's letters, but I imagine they were all quite alike. I cannot say I had much respect for Cyrano's love - and letter writing - either, but at least he has an excuse. She was the one "dress" who walked through his life. He didn't know how to approach women and she gave him the time of day, sort of. Roxane, however, had no excuse. Feeding such a vain, superficial "love" made it increasingly vain and superficial as it went on, rather than deepening it as she thought she had. Sure, she was really "loyal" (because she never moved on from some guy who wrote her pretty letters when she was sixteen or something, I bet) and she was really PASSIONATE, but it was not about HIM. When he died, the first thing she did was take out the letter he had written to her, and exclaim about the flattering and dramatic blood and tears sprayed over the letter. The first thing she did was see if he had left anything for her. Had Roxane had as much passion for Christian/Cyrano as she did for herself, she would have tried to discover who he was, rather than fawning over the dedication and ardour with which he serenaded her every day, and soon enough she would have discovered that Christian was not Cyrano and Cyrano was not Christian and that she had fallen in love with two very different men at the same time. It's not really possible to deeply care about another human being, to love them, and fail to see them so completely. She just liked the illusion of a 'perfect man' the Cyrano-infused Christian presented - beautiful, brave and poetic. Furthermore, she really liked the idea of this 'perfect man' being perfectly in love with her. It was not perfect love, though. It was the joint obsession of two men who both considered themselves unworthy of a woman's love, and who happily lapped up all the appreciation of a woman they both considered 'perfect' and out of their league. Their main link was that Christian and Cyrano were infatuated with Roxane, and she was too. I wouldn't even call it love. It is unsurprising, then, that they got along so well, but even though I don't think she DESERVED the love she was given, everyone seemed to think she did, so it all worked out.