Buba had no idea what minimal female empowerment meant in the 1990s. She took pride in cooking for her boyfriend every day and taking care of “the housework.” She is quite insecure and dependent on her lover when Venâncio says he is breaking up with her, she has a violent crying fit.
“You have this habit…you always settle for little,” Venâncio says in one scene. “Yeah right? And I have to thank God that the other person in the life of a man like you, my dear… has to settle for the leftovers and make a feast of it!” she replies seriously.
Buba now enters the soap opera determined not to be with a man who doesn't behave like she is. Only after Venâncio showed serious signs of change did he agree to continue with him. Quite a change.
FRIENDSHIP WITH ZÉ INOCÊNCIO
In both versions, Buba soon becomes his fatherinlaw's favorite daughterinlaw during a visit to Zê Inocêncio's farm much more than Kika, Zé Bento's girlfriend. And in both cases, the colonel immediately tries to ask Buba for an heir, not knowing that she cannot have children naturally.
The original soap opera contained a gem of machismo from the Colonel (Antônio Fagundes): “Don't be angry, Buba… That's what women are made for: to give birth” thankfully deleted from the remake. In the new version, the friendship reached the point of exchanging books: Zé Inocêncio gave his daughterinlaw “Capitães da Areia” by Jorge Amado, complete with an extremely loving note.