Carmela Soprano is one of television’s most brilliantly written contradictions—a woman who clutches her rosary in one hand while gripping her husband’s blood-soaked wealth with the other. Few characters in embody moral conflict as intensely as Carmela, a devout Catholic who lives in moral luxury built on extortion, violence, and death.
She wants forgiveness.
She wants comfort.
She refuses to give up either.
This tension—between salvation and sin, faith and fortune—is the core of Carmela’s tragedy.
Carmela isn’t pretending when she prays.
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