The Daughter of Fortune focuses a lot on relationships and the hoops someone will jump through for love. Eliza runs away from her family and chases after her "one true love" Joaquin. Seriously, how can she possibly love him. So, this is how they meet. Joaquin works for Eliza's uncle, so he swings by her house to do some work. She serves him lemonade and falls madly in love. Of course, Joaquin feels the same way about Eliza after there first meeting. From then on, they meet in a shack and have sex. They then begin doing it in the attic of Eliza's house during the night when no one will hear them. There relationship is founded on very little other than sex. I don't know how grounded there love really is.
After a while, their secret relationship must be ended as Joaquin heads to California to participate in the gold rush. Despite the fact that Joaquin picked gold over his "love", Eliza feels obligated to find him in America. She is now carrying his child as she stows away on a ship and nearly dies. Eliza has a still birth and lives to see California. Once she steps on land, her first thoughts are of Joaquin. I have little faith in her actually finding him.
Do they really love each other then? Eliza goes through Hell to get to America and become closer to Joaquin. She leaves her family, leaves behind her riches and comfortable house, she leaves her friends, she illegally stows away on a ship, she nearly dies, and yet she still only thinks of finding Joaquin. I can't decide if she loves him or not. I can't imagine any other reason to go through such horrors unless there really is true love.
My writing probably sounded sort of bitter, but I can't wrap my mind around love at first sight stuff. I believe you come to love someone through a closer relationship based conversations and shared experiences. Eliza and Joaquin share little other than sex, but maybe that's enough in this case.
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