Jane the Virgin Recap: 'The Head and the Heart' is All About Banishing Doubts
What would you do when faced with a crisis? Would you approach it head on or would you avoid it all together?
In the last episode of "Jane the Virgin," the characters wind up to have conflicts that they try to resolve in different ways.
In Xiomara's case, she tried to resolve her issues by avoiding any confrontations. When Xiomara heard that Rogelio's mother thinks that she is not meant to be with Rogelio, Xiomara wanted to change her mind and played her good side. But right after Easter, she gave up and headed for a bar where she bumped into her ex-boyfriend Marco. Marco tells her that Rogelio should not listen to his mother and that she should be appreciated even more.
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As soon as Xiomara gets home, Rogelio admits his mistake. He goes on to say that it was his fault that his mother never got to know her granddaughter. As the episode draws to a close, Rogelio admits to Xiomara that he loves her – something she so desperately wanted to hear.
Meanwhile, Rafael becomes increasingly busy in his attempt to win his liquor license back that made Jane think that he is too busy to build a family with her. Jane, because of her strong family background, wants the same for her family. But when Rafael shut her off, she begins to question her views about family. Rafael, given his familial background, tries so hard to avoid the conflict by burying himself with work.
Rafael's struggles with his grief over his family relations are driving him to ruin his own family that he is trying to build with Jane. Rafael believes that in order to support his family, he should have money. Jane, on the other hand, thinks that it is more important to have a family built with love and support from one another – just like her own family.
Jane tells Rafael: "That life with the husband always gone and work always comes first, I don't want that." Rafael tries to explain his side about the need to work so he can provide for his family.
At the start of the episode, Jane has a flashback scene during Jane's childhood that had Jane ask about: "That stale cracker from the deli is supposed to be the body of Christ?" To which her abuelita answers, "It's the banishment of doubt."
When the three generations of Villanueva meet at the front porch, Xiomara tells Jane, "Don't let doubts get in the way." Alba adds, "It won't work if you don't believe it will. You have to have faith."
That banishment of doubt is what Jane was able to realize in this episode, but not Rafael who breaks up with Jane. "I want to be successful. I want to leave something for my child like my father left for me, and right now I can't do that without disappointing you."
"Jane the Virgin" allow its viewers to question their own belief, their own moral values, and the ways on how they can deal with it. Viewers realize that things are different when looked at through different perspectives.
