Reflection #9: M. Butterfly

I really like this play and it was very different from others I reed before. This play at first was humorous but then later in the story turn up very sad and the ending was even sadder. A first I considered funny Gallimard , his shyness toward woman, when he could not finish his sentence when speaking to Song Liling, when Marc arranged a woman to have sex with Gallimard and he felt scared when he was doing it. It was also funny when the Dutch girl that have the was called Rene like Rene Gallimard and the thing that she have with the men's private part and the many names that she have for it. I even at first considered funny the fact that for twenty years Gallimard felt in love of a transsexual. But as I continued reading, as Gallimard's feeling got serious the story changed to a more serious one and as sadder were the events that occur to Gallimard more sadder the story turns up.
Well the thing is that this Gallimard was a complete woos, he was very shy toward beautiful woman. He have a fiend name Marc that was the one who always arrange him with woman because Gallimard can even speak complete sentences to them. Later Gallimar marry with I think was not very attractive woman named Helga , this woman was one , as said by Gallimard, one that no man can fell in love with her because of her past. Gallimard worked in the French Government and he is a diplomat who's decision have an important role in the war against Vietnam and he have access to secret information regardless to the United state movement in the war. The thing is that one day he went to see his favorite opera called Madame Butterfly, this opera was his favorite because he wanted to be like one of the characters named Pikerton who was a very masculine man and was marry with a very submissive Chinese girl named Cio-Cion Sang. That day he fell in love with the Chinese "actress" that play the character of Cio-Cio Sang named Song Liling. The sad part was that Gallimard truly fell in love with Song without knowing that she was a he for twenty years ant that Gallimard was been used by Song to retrieve information for the Chinese government. At the end Gallimard decided to still love the Song that represented Madame Butterfly in his imagination and he kill himself in jail.