Similar to Yank, Jean in Dead Man’s Cell Phone also lacks knowledge regarding social boundaries that eventually leads to her unpleasant ending, coma. The first awareness she lacks is about not getting too involved in a stranger’s life. Jean, at first, is not interfering with Gordon’s incoming phone calls, thus is playing her stranger role really well until she loses her self-control, “reaches for the cell phone…[and] answers it” (Ruhl 9). Her action of invading some stranger 's property without the owner’s consent is both illegal and socially unacceptable, showing that Jean lacks the awareness of social boundaries. However, her action is not considered as a serious invasion until she decides to promise that she will “stay with [him]...[f]or …show more content…
Jean agrees to meet the Other Woman even though she does not know who the woman is and what her relationship is with Gordon. Jean however knows very clearly that she does not know anything about the Other Woman at all, so she chooses to make a very broad guess of “You must be—his friend” (20) in the hope that she can collect some information from the Other Woman as she goes along with her lies such as how “Gordon mentioned [the Other Woman]... [and] said: tell her that I love her… [before] he turned his face away and died” (21). Jean is obviously telling lies because first of all, the audience all know that she did not even talk to Gordon at all; and second of all, Ruhl uses many dashes in Jean’s monologue, especially when Jean tells the Other Woman that Gordon “said that other women seemed like clocks compare to [her]—other women just—measured timer—broke the day up—but that [she]—[she] stopped time... just by walking into a room” (22), to show that Jean is actually improvising all her lies as she speaks. Based on the fact that Jean is meeting and telling the Other Woman some made up lies, it is obvious that Jean is not aware that what she has done is socially unacceptable and is crossing the social boundaries. Another example of Jean’s telling lies is demonstrated when she presents the fake “presents for
Minerva lied to El Jefe to protect her friend. Minerva stated "It was part of the play,"
When Charles learns her true identity from his protective bodyguard, he reacts with miserable distress. The camera follows him as he strides stoically to the bar and orders a stiff drink in a general shot. The background music is now very ominous and slow. Jean arrives from the left of him in the ship's bar; the camera goes into a medium shot of Jean and Charles at the bar. She is wondering why he looks so worried and crestfallen, and guesses that it's because he is "falling in love with a girl in the middle of an ocean." Truthful for once in her life, she admits her authentic love for him and her mistakes and puts her left arm around his shoulders. Midstream, she realizes that he's found out about her. The scene of Charles rejecting Jean is shot with a medium shot of both of them at the bar.
Ann is justified in her decision to "sleeps" with Steven, John’s friend. John has not been paying much attention to Ann and he leaves her alone in their house with Steven. Ann also has prior feelings for Steven from when they where in school together. Ann felt that she is unimportant to John because he frequently leaves her alone; she states, "It isn't right to leave me here alone. Surely I'm as important as your father." Ann just wants to feel loved by John but because he doesn't make her feel loved. She sees Steven as the only person who can give her the love and affection she needs.
The struggle to battle with the persistent grief of self-blame and lack of identity is a constant reminder to the barriers in relationships. Leroy grieves over the fact that he has lost his identity as a father and husband. Although he often thinks of Randy, the memories of him have faded. As a result, he latches on to Norma Jean but she doesn’t respond back. This causes him to feel like a failure of a husband. Norma Jean is grieving over the emptiness in her life. It was not the life she thought she would have. Her deceased son symbolizes her emptiness because of his death. She also feels emptiness towards her husband. For example, she feels very uncomfortable around him and always tries to find something for him to do. When Leroy arrives back home from his accident Mason implies, “he thinks she’s seems a little disappointed” (Mason 220), displaying Norma Jean frustrated with his lying around doing nothing but watching television and smoking pot. In addition, Norma Jean feels emptiness towards her mother, which is presented in the way her mother criticizes her. When tragedies occur in a family and self-confidence fades it can take over your life a...
Deception is present in Tennessee Williams’s drama ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, William Shakespeare’s Tragedy ‘Othello’ and L. P. Hartley’s novel ‘The Go-Between’; the writers choose to use characterisation to explore the theme in depth. Often the protagonists of each text are the primary offenders of deceit, though some supporting characters mislead as well; although Iago is the antagonist of ‘Othello’, he is incomparably the most deceitful character in the entire play. Similarly, Williams uses Blanche to develop the plot by misleading the other characters and even herself at times, though arguably, unlike Iago, Blanche is presented as a character who lacks the motivation to hurt anyone. Conversely Leo, although the protagonist and narrator of the novel, is not the most deceitful character – Ted Burgess and Marian Maudsley not only coerce him into the deceit, but they themselves are presented as masters of the game they play, however, this essay will focus on Leo as he is a unique symbol of deceit; he is unaware of the consequences of his actions.
As the story begins, the character of the husband has a negative personality. He lacks compassion, is narrow-minded, and is jealous of his wife’s friendship with a blind man named Robert. His constantly complains that “a blind man in my house was not something [he looked] forward to” (362). The close outside friendship between the narrator’s wife and Robert provokes his insecurities. This friendship has lasted for ten years and during those years, they have exchanged countless tapes regarding experiences they have gone through. Because of this, her husband feels “she [has] told him everything or it so it seemed” (363) about their relationship.
The actress states, “There’s got to be more to this marriage than a few hastily scribbled words on a small square of pastel paper! By the way. We’re out of post-its,” (Dooley and Holzman, 852). This results in the audience to question the actress’s goal of fixing the relationship with her husband, because the audience understands that she is unhappy with how they communicate, yet still asks for more of the basis of the communicative ways they do now, seeing no end to the repetitive cycle (Dooley and Holzman, 852). It is clear that the conversations between the two characters make the audience questionable of the character’s relationship in many ways.
... make poor decisions. Freddy Malins shows up at the party drunk, causing problems for the host. Gabriel has problems socializing with Miss Ivory, because she does not agree with his opinions. As a result, she leaves the party early. When people socialize, they usually do not want to discuss work but use socialization as an escape from it. The songs at the party have some significance because of the feelings and thoughts they provoke in different people. The song “The Lass of Aughrim” causes Gretta to smile and stimulates Gabriel’s desire for his wife. The next song, however, back at the hotel, reminds Gretta of a previous lover. Where the first song brings them together, the second song pulls them apart. The first song, for Gabriel, is an escape from his problems to his wife, while the second song causes the wife to want to escape her marriage with Gabriel.
When her husband was still with her, she had no identity, she was branded exclusively as Mrs. Mallard, Brently Mallard’s wife. Now, Louise distinguishes that she can finally be her own person and be identified by who she is, not only as someone else’s wife. As Louise departs from her room, she develops into a new person and as Mark Cunningham (2004) writes in his Literary Criticism, The Autonomous Female and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”, “With Brently’s return, with the reconstitution of her marriage and previous social position, Louise once again vanishes among her husband and her relatives” (para. 3). This explicates that when Louise’s husband was with her, and when he returns, she fades into the background. In the short time Louise is deprived of her husband, she grows into her own identity and this gives way to her feminist ideas. As Louise realizes that she now does not have to live for anyone else in the years to come, Chopin (1894) writes that “There would be no powerful will bending hers” (para. 14). This demonstrates that Louise frequently felt that her husband’s opinion conflicted on hers and she rarely received the attention she deserved. Now, Louise has no one to rule above her, no one to be associated with as lesser than
...llowed to flow. He also manipulates Miss Julie's emotions by appealing to the romantic child in her. It is Miss Julie's fall from her high social status and her consequent fall to a childish ego state that makes Jean adapt his ego. She starts out thinking she is better than Jean because he is her servant. As they get closer she feels he is her equal so she talks to him as an adult from an adult standpoint. By the end when she has fallen from grace she feels so low that she is talking up to Jean and wants him to tell her what to do. All the while Jean is on the opposite side of the wheel that Miss Julie is on.
...re are ingrained class barriers, that when crossed, have dire consequences. This theme is developed throughout the play and is clearly shown through Jean and Julie’s actions. Julie and Jean are in their distinct social classes, which they attempt to stay in. However, through Julie’s relationship with Jean, she jumps down social classes and breaks the class barrier. Because of this jump, Julie is mentally unable to cope with the ridicule and torment that she must face. She states that “I’m [Julie] worthless. But help me! If you see any way out at all, help me, Jean, please!” This make it clear that Julie is desperately looking for something to make up for crossing the class barrier, showing that she can not handle the physical and mental consequences of her actions. Such inability to cope eventually leads Julie to commit suicide—the final consequence for her actions.
Jeanne Marie makes fun of Jacques because he is so small and Simon, which is Jeanne’s true lover gets killed by Jacques. After all of this happens Jeanne and Jacques continue to be married and carry on with their lives. The theme in this story compares nothing to the film. Jeanne only wanted Jacques for his money, which is extremely selfish. The whole story is about
Mrs. Mallard’s sister, Josephine, was the one who told Louise Mallard of her husband’s death. Josephine told her “in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing”(Chopin 628). If Josephine were to have known the joy Louise felt, she
It 's used in jest by the community (Robert Lebrun in particular), and we also know that Edna has a crush on the aforementioned Robert because she took a walk on the beach with him instead of her husband. Women don 't walk on the beach with other men when they 're truly in love with their husbands. It 's obvious Robert likes Edna back when Mr. Pontellier asks Robert to go with him to Klein 's hotel and Robert admitted "that he preferred to stay where he was and talk to Mrs. Pontellier" (Chopin 1255). Men don 't talk with women, that are married, when their husband is not present unless they 're secretly in
Jean is a wife of a powerful man. Based on her husband word and actions, image and work are his primary concerns. In the beginning, Jean say that " Rick spent dinner on his phone most of the night and not showing Jean an attention." He Mentions that he thinks Jean is jealous of Karen, who works closely with Rick. Later, while Jean is extremely emotional and upset because rick doesn't take her seriously and shuffles her off to bed so he can work on his image and how voters will respond to the robbery. Moreover, this shows that Jean does not have any responsibilities or any true friends throughout the film. The character of Jean Cabot allowed her past to interfere with her life during the whole movie. For example, when Jean and her husband Rick SUV was stolen by two black men with guns; Jean wouldn't let it go she always had something to say about it. Jean was the type of character that try to make others feel how she feel and also try to make others characters feel sorry for her. Most of Jean's fear would come from her personal problems. However, Jean's blind fear, anger and her emotions are a result of how alone she feels. For the most part Jean does not even exhibit interpersonal immediacy with others. Therefore, Jeans perception with herself is consistent with the way others see her