A Day in Carmen's Life is a story about a girl who is mature for her age. She has so many grown up choices to make that she becomes closed off and in her own mind when someone is talking to her. Her utopia is her mind and she feels like no one listens to her or wants to listen to her and that no one has time for her or her feelings. She does manifest herself into someone she always wanted to be as the story moves as she is coming of age.
Carmen is complex and feels like the world around her is crashing when she has to go throw these pivotal moments in her life, and not suck herself into her own imagination. When she has finally come to the conclusion that she has to let things go and not punish herself for others' actions, she blooms into someone who is wise and witty.