Do a character study exploring the personality traits on one character in particular including how these qualities have changed in the section you are studying? (Chapter 30-33) Amy Elliott Dunne Amy Elliott Dunne is not exactly what her parents, Marybeth Elliott and Rand Elliott wrote about in their best selling book series, “Amazing Amy”. As a kid, Amy found it astonishing that everyone began to love the fictional character displayed as her. Making a decision that changed her life, Amy chooses to become, the most beloved fictional character, “Amazing Amy”. Throughout many years, she became a perfectionist who can never be caught in an act with flaws, The cool girl; who did whatever she wanted without being judged. Amy was an understanding woman with a personality of pure gold, also known as the “it” girl; the woman every man dreamed about. By chapter 30, a surreal twist approaches the audience, as the presumably dead “Amazing Amy”, is fully living as none other than her true self, “Avenging Amy”. In this section Amy puts out her opinion of her unthankful …show more content…
Swearing that a girl like “Amazing Amy” doesn’t exist. Her having to fake the loving, oblivious, innocent wife; after catching her husband cheat on her a year ago. She began to plan her revenge, as the book has reached the point where “Amazing Amy’s” roleplay is now over, concluding her to be “Avenging Amy”. Starting the Year off with a diary full of lies, stealing money from herself just to throw off the police, just to frame Nick. Her yearly anniversary treasure hunt for her anniversary, with twisting words, in a happy sense made Nick fall in love with his wife once more, but with a sense of mockery it was a way leading him to her revenge. Poor gullible nick was stuck in a dilemma that none other than “Amazing/Avenging Amy” has done. Unfortunately for Nick, no one will believe she is capable of being truly
At the beginning of the story, Amy is a gangly and awkward pre-teen, not caring what others think, playing in mud, and painting on her skin with the blue clay from the creek. As summer comes to an end, Amy stops dressing in her grungy t-shirts and cut off jean shorts, and more like her popular preppy friends at school, as it is more important to her that she wears what her friends wear, rather than what she likes to wear. At school, all of her friends’ names end with an “i”, so hers changes to
Sometimes the way people act around you isn’t the way they act around other people. A good example of this is Shirley Jackson’s, “The Possibility of Evil”. The main character, Miss Strangeworth, isn’t as nice as she may seem. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does, what the narrator says about her, and how other characters interact with her.
Amy Van Dorn is a girl with Cerebral Palsy, meaning she has to use a walker and a Pathway in order to speak. Amy is way above average when it comes to intelligence and is definitely aware of the way people see her. To me, i thought that her character was very compelling, because she is not the typical heroine that you read about in every other story. But she is still just as astounding. I also enjoyed how wasn’t afraid to approach people and talk to them even if she knew that they didn’t want to. Especially because not everyone would be willing to just throw themselves out there like she did considering her circumstances.
Amy Tan shows how Lena and Ying-ying lacks spirit as both don’t speak for themselves making it harder for them fight against hard times. Ying-Ying growing up is a strong and cunning girl but after getting into a loveless marriage she
At the age of five, Amy and her family moved to Burlington, Massachusetts (12). According to Amy’s parents, she was always feisty, confident, and a natural “activity nerd” who loved being with her friends. When Amy was ten, with the help of her strong confidence, she was Dorothy in her play The Wizard of Oz at Wildwood Elementary School. Amy recalls that role as when she first learned of improvisational acting. Carol Burnett was one of Amy’s biggest inspirations.
In the beginning of the novel, we see her interact with her husband as they are struggling to survive in their middle class social system. It’s easy to dislike Amy Reardon; although she maintains a household, for a while, she cares more about her image than her actual marriage. However, if one considers that during this era image meant everything, Amy’s character becomes more relatable. Amy’s husband ultimately expects too much from his wife. As a writer who refuses to write anything but volumes in a literary changing world, he gives Amy no choice but to leave him. Amy expects little from her husband except the maintenance of a middle class lifestyle, including: a maid, stylish, new clothes, and attendance at societal parties. At the beginning of their marriage, Amy married Edwin Reardon thinking that one day he would be an established, well-off writer. However, due to his stubbornness, he begins declination in wealth quickly. Amy pushes her husband to write something (anything, really) to bring in money. In fact, after he asks her if they can move to a smaller, cheaper place, she urges him “but think what it means, to give up our home and position. That is open confession of failure. It would be horrible” (86). Amy would rather Edwin sacrifices artistic views/ideology in order for her to live comfortably. But in the world the Reardon’s live in, image means everything; therefore, Amy doesn’t
Amy Tan, in ?Mother Tongue,? Does an excellent job at fully explaining her self through many different ways. It?s not hard to see the compassion and love she has for her mother and for her work. I do feel that her mother could have improved the situation of parents and children switching rolls, but she did the best she could, especially given the circumstances she was under. All in all, Amy just really wanted to be respected by her critics and given the chance to prove who she is. Her time came, and she successfully accomplished her goals. The only person who really means something to her is her mother, and her mother?s reaction to her first finished work will always stay with her, ?so easy to read? (39).
The article starts of on Amy reflecting on how for years the way she approached work was to be a nice thoughtful person to everyone, even when it wasn't necessary. She states how she would always say please and thank you and express concern for other peoples problems, in their work life or in their personal life. She very clearly stated that she was not a boss, but had a mid level position in the company, and implied she never understood why she was stuck there and had not moved up in rank in the company.
Amy admits she thought they were foolish, and that now she is unfortunately one of them. “One of the women with endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch”(234). This line is the important in the creation of Amy and killing off Diary Amy. We know that Amy does not end with mediocrity, as normal people do not frame their husbands. Amy, broken and turned into her nightmare does not stay a “Poor dumb bitch.” Amy gets her revenge and teaches Nick a lesson. She becomes a woman to be feared, and I at this point fear and admire her because she turns her life into what she wants. Amy becomes a strong, crazy, delusional, psychopathic ‘bitch,’ and because she chose it over staying the ‘poor dumb bitch’ she is a justice seeking woman who was wronged as opposed to an insane Joker like character who does crazy things for fun and without reason. Amy is a fallen saint who the reader likes and roots for at this
Starting out as just a girl who performed in small jazz clubs, that quickly changed. She never saw her self as “famous” and quite frankly didn't ever really understand what that meant. Anytime someone said, “Amy how does it feel to be famous” her response would be “What does that even mean?”. Making music was something special to her, something she used as an outlet. With having depression, it was a way to express her feelings and escape the dark feelings and thoughts that came with depression. Fame was never a necessity to her, but its exactly what she received. Through the film she makes it apparent even when the spotlight was on her, thats exactly what she didn't want- she couldn't handle it. Amy had media attention from all over the world due to her exceptional talent in Jazz music. As Amy got more famous you see people in her life use the fame to their advantage. Her father, was constantly welcoming press and photographers to private events even when she was trying to stay out of media and on the road to recovery. Her boyfriend, Blake had an assumption of her taking care of him once he knew she was well off. Amy’s character through this continued to remain humble, until the drugs took over her entire body causing her to lash out to press, her father, and even her
She wrote that “I have to do something to stop myself from going mad. I didn’t really mean to start cutting myself.” As a counsellor, I want to help Amy to deal with the divorce and how to adjust to a new life after divorce. I have to keep in mind about the factors that play in a role in how Amy adjusts to a new life, such as: “the cumulative stress… following a divorce”, Amy’s “temperament and personality”, Amy’s “age”, and her
One question I have about this book is why Nick has been cheating on Amy. I think he cheated on her because, work was getting harder and he just wasn’t happy with Amy anymore. Nick also has a drinking problem and
When Amy turned nine years old, her father left the family. This drove Amy to pursue in music, but also hurt her mentally. She attempted suicide att 10. She began to cut her wrists to relieve herself from her troubles. She then took the advice of her grandmother to go to theatre school for a start in her career. Amy begin to train at Susi Earnshaw Theatre school. While attending, she started to write and record music with a neighborhood friend, Juliette Ashby. They created a short-lived music group called “Sweet & Sour”. Music was a way to keep her from thinking about her father, but Amy couldn’t handle the pressure. She began to smoke marijuana and started to get tattoos and care little about what she did anymore. Amy attended Susi for four years, then decided to seek full-time training at Sylvia Young Theatre school. Months later she got to appear in an episode of “The Fast Show” a 1997 tv series. Her disrespe...
Amy seeks meaning from within her fragmented existence. Where Nathan is brought to the edge of this discovery as the novel progresses, Lonoff retreats from it. Literature is adept at describing and cultivating a fragmented sense of identity; it can motivate others to actions/extremes never sought by the author. Put simply, art encourages interpretation. As writers, each of these three characters is aware of the fact that unity or singularity of interpretation is rarely (if ever) achieved. When also applied to an individual identity such interpretive freedom/ambiguity can be the source of both strength and despair. The notion of self, though perhaps less whole by the end of the novel, still houses a potential for meaning.
The death of her child has destroyed her, and Robert Sweenes argues that, “[s]he can relate to no one,” so she seeks this mysterious person instead of her husband (367). Taking into consideration that Amy is seeking another man could bring up the question of if the child was really his. “Not only has her domestic personality collapsed, but her psychological identity as well” (Sweenes 367). Ultimately, what is at stake here is their marriage and the fact that Amy does not feel like his wife. However, the man tries to reason with Amy by apologizing.