*spoiler alert*

Meadow Soprano, played by Jamie Lynn Sigler, was the daughter of Tony and Carmela Soprano on the HBO cable show. The sopranos. His character develops in many ways more than other characters on the show, largely because he’s growing up. His character has an interesting arc. At first, she doesn’t really appreciate what her father makes of her for a living, then she starts to hate what she does, then she is slowly drawn into the world in a way she herself doesn’t notice.

At first, Meadow is vaguely aware that her father is a gangster, but she’s not really aware of the implications of that. She suspects that things go wrong sometimes, even when her father murders a man while they’re on a college-scouting trip. However, the full scope of her father’s profession doesn’t really hit her until Season 3, when she sees two dark aspects of her father. Her first boyfriend is black and her father is openly racist towards him. However, this is completely forgotten when her second boyfriend, Jackie Jr., is murdered by the same mob that controls her father.

At this point, he completely breaks down, suspecting that his father is involved in Jackie Jr.’s death (he is). Over time, however, he begins to rationalize death as a natural part of mob life, and finds a completely mob-free man, Finn. The two become engaged, but when she realizes that he has become an accessory to the murder of a gay mobster, he quietly leaves her off-screen.

The off-screen break is important; Meadow just doesn’t understand why she and Finn broke up. At this point, it becomes clear to the audience that she is immersed enough in the world of the mafia to scare others. She eventually becomes engaged to another mobster’s son, Patrick Parisi, and intends to fight discrimination against Italian Americans. In order to deal with her father’s crimes, she had to rationalize that her father is actually the victim.