According to Sergio, a developed person is someone who is cultured and educated and moreover someone to whom he could equate himself as an intellectual (Underdevelopment). As previously stated his wife Laura is depicted as superficial like most Cuban bourgeois women at his time; hence, it did not work out between Sergio and Laura (Underdevelopment). Sergio failed in trying to educate both Laura and Elena (Underdevelopment). The film suggest that women in Cuba are underdeveloped intellectually and culturally, unlike the “mature” Hanna who is of European descent, since Laura and Elena are both Cubans of two different classes (Underdevelopment).

Notably, Hanna the ideal European woman was portrayed to be very fair with fine, pale blonde hair while Sergio’s Cuban bourgeois class wife Laura had coarse hair streaked with blonde and the Cuban working class Elena is even darker than Sergio, comments on how class differences often match color …show more content…
The Cuban women that Sergio meets after could not match the European Hanna in Sergio’s eyes. They fail in comparison of intellect as well as physical beauty. This is symbolic for the fact that Cuban itself was underdeveloped in comparison to other nations such as the Europeans and the U.S. Although Sergio is rather critical of Cuba’s underdevelopment and it’s women, he too gradually becomes underdeveloped overtime as he stays in Cuba. This is due to the lack of resources and knowledge that can come into underdeveloped nation, which leads to the conclusion that the underdeveloped lack the knowledge that they are even underdeveloped. For those who does, they seek refuge in wealthier nations in hopes of a better life shown in the film opening with the seen of Cuba’s bourgeoisie class are taking flight to seek refuge in the