Three top hats

We will now talk about one of the most important works of modern Spanish theater, Three top hats, where today we focus on meeting the main and secondary characters of this text by Miguel Mihura. The author lived through the harsh Spain of the early twentieth century, and as a result this tragicomic story was born that today we dissect in the lesson of a PROFESSOR. Take notes!

Three top hats narrates a history with tragicomic overtones. In it we find characters from different social strata who cross each other as a result of a certain coincidence, a fact that can even lead them to change their lives.

In the play we meet Dionisio, a young bourgeois about to get married, who is spending the night in a small hotel. So far comes Paula, a dancer from a ballet group who is on the verge of making the boy's life change completely, although eventually, his customs and his moral duty will be imposed for him to do what he considers right, what is expected of him. he. The clash between classes It does not finish curdling and both follow their paths already traced.

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We are now fully entering the world of main characters of Three top hats. Let's see the three that focus this section:

Dionisio

Dionisio is the main protagonist of the work. A young bourgeois, civil servant and well-to-do, a shy boy, somewhat corny, whose life is totally governed by the social conventions of his time.

The boy is spending the night in a hotel the night before his wedding with Margarita, his fiancée, as expected of him. But the arrival of Paula and her ballet company, and his own chance and confusion, will turn his world upside down for a moment, which will make the boy want to. turn your life around, become something of a bohemian and leave her current status to enter a world that draws him to the unknown.

However, finally his bourgeois moral and when she is well off she will win, and she will once again do what she considers to be her obligation and her commitment.

Paula

Paula is the girl who she totally changes the way of seeing the world of Dionisio. She is a young, exuberant, blonde girl of great beauty. She is dedicated to dancing in a ballet company and is a simple, cheerful person, quite sincere, but very influenced by Buby Burton, the director of the group of music hall to which the girl belongs.

Paula endures a certain brutality that she is forced to carry out by her own work, and also by the very society in which she is involved, quite hypocritical and petty for her way of being.

She is a naive girl who dream of a better future and that she maybe she sees in Dionisio an opportunity to make his fantasies come true. Be that as it may, when the boy agrees to marry, she returns to her everyday life.

Buby burton

He is the leader of the ballet company. He is black, and he presents himself as a kind of bridge between the bourgeois Dionisio and Paula's hubbub. However, and despite the fact that he is a somewhat topical character, he is a mean man, a liar, capable of taking advantage of any opportunity to earn money at the expense of anyone, because in his world there is only personal profit.

In addition, Mihura creates a group of secondary characters of enough importance in the work to be able to reflect the situation and the two societies that intermingle and collide in the book:

Don Rosario

He is the owner of the hotel where the action takes place. A kind and loving man in excess, who treats all his guests with great care. One of the most beloved characters in the entire text.

Fanny

She is another of the girls in the company, who has a cool head, and is completely interested. Thanks to her capricious nature, she can take advantage of others to get what she wants from each one.

Don Sacramento

She is the father of Margarita, who reacts to the lack of Dionisio and goes to the hotel to look for him, and to convince him to come to reason and get married, as planned.

Music Hall Girls

Besides Paula and Fanny, there are other girls in the ballet group, such as Sagra, Trudy, Madame Olga or Carmela. They are the representatives of a somewhat dark world, but deep down fun, although superficial.

Characters of the bourgeoisie

Faced with the girls who represent a somewhat carefree world, but equally of dubious morals, we find the bourgeois, more corseted in their customs and traditions, but who also do not get rid of the sharp feather of Mihura. Highlights include the Hateful Lord, the Military Elder, the Cunning Hunter, the Merry Explorer, and even the Romantic Lover.