The irony of Helen Sharp spending the entirety of Act I suppressing her hunger and cravings just to then lose her stomach and be left with a hole she can’t fill.
Helen Sharp whose first solo song includes the lines
“I could feast on that for days” // “So delicious, so addicting” // “So we're going back for more” // “I found my true love and I finally feel whole”
Helen Sharp that spent the entire dinner avoiding food and dessert in order to “fit into a wedding dress” just to give in before her whole world crumbles around her.
Helen Sharp who’s been hungry for Madeline’s attention and approval and admiration since the moment she met her.
The trope of a woman’s hunger and craving being used a a metaphor for repressed desires and wants both sexual and non-sexual. And used perfectly for Helen Sharp in Act I just to then see her achieve almost everything that she wanted and then be shot in the stomach by the absolute object of her hunger and desire thus ironically being left empty by what she wanted the most.
