Mirella Character Analysis

Mirella is the girlfriend of Faisal, one of Jonathan Alkaitis’s biggest investors. Vincent meets Mirella at a party she attends with Jonathan, and the two become fast and close friends, bonding over their shared strange journey from poverty to excess wealth. Like Vincent’s relationship to Jonathan, Mirella use Faisal as a means of elevating herself financially, though Mirella genuinely appears to love Faisal, whereas Vincent only enjoys Jonathan’s company. Faisal commits suicide when the news about Alkaitis’s Ponzi scheme breaks, which causes Mirella to sever contact with Vincent, since she believes that Vincent knew about the scheme and chose to withhold information that could have prevented Faisal’s financial ruin and resultant suicide. Vincent sees Mirella only once after the scheme’s collapse, in 2010, when Mirella visits a bar at which Vincent is working. Mirella either doesn’t recognize or chooses to ignore Vincent, and this hurtful experience is the impetus that pushes Vincent to abandon New York for a life at sea.