“Barefoot in the Park” is a play written by Neil Simon in 1963 about a newlywed couple, Paul and Corie Bratter, their new brownstone apartment, and their adventures with their new neighbor Mr. Velasco and Corie’s mother, Ms. Ethel Banks. In this play, Corie Bratter, the main character, contains very many personality traits, with a few being her adventurous spirit, her clingy feelings, and sly tricks. The new Mrs. Bratter has an adventurous soul, ending up to be the exact opposite of Paul, and this is shown through many instances. One of the main showcases of this trait is when Corie complains about Paul not going to walk barefoot in the park with her. “CORIE: Like Thursday night. You wouldn’t walk barefoot with me in Washington Square Park. …show more content…
Why not? PAUL: Very simple answer. It was seventeen degrees. CORIE: Exactly. That’s very sensible and logical. Except it isn’t any fun.” Corie decided to go walking, barefoot in a park in below freezing weather. Another place her adventure shows through is when she is willing to try a new restaurant even when nobody else wants to. “PAUL: (To Corie) That’s right. That’s right. At least I was honest about it. You ate two bowls of Greek Bean soup because you were showing off for Al Capone at the next table.” Corie just plunged right into the “sheep dip” without any waiting. She is willing to try anything that Mr. Velasco decided to throw at her. Although the protagonist is adventurous, she also can be extremely clingy at times.
One example of this is when she expects Paul to be with her at their brownstone all day, everyday… even though he has to work. “PAUL: Oh Corie… I’m going to be a lawyer. CORIE: That’s wonderful… I just thought we were going to spend the night together.” Corie obviously doesn’t understand that to even pay for the apartment they are living in, they need at least one person in the couple to work. It is physically impossible to have Paul with her all the time, or else they wouldn’t eat. All she wants is to spend all of her time with her new husband. Another instance of this is when Corie still wants Paul to stay with her even through their divorce. “CORIE: You will stay right here and fight for our marriage!” She was stuck on him even through their fight, and didn’t want him to go to bed just so that they could finish their fight and make up. Even though Corie is clingy, she can also be extremely sly at …show more content…
times. The main character in this play is very sly and plays a lot of tricks.
One of the main ones is when she tricks her very own mother into coming to dinner with Mr. Velasco on Friday night. “CORIE: Well if I had told you it was a blind date with Mr. Velasco upstairs, I couldn’t have blastde you out of the house. MOTHER: A blind date… With Mr. Velasco… The one that…? Good gosh!” Corie’s mom never wanted to go on a blind date and yet Corie arranged for it to happen without even telling her. Another time is when Corie lets Mr. Velasco take her Mother home in hopes of something happening. “CORIE: Well… how about that Mr. ‘This is going to be a fiasco tonight’?... He’s taking her all the way to New Jersey… at two o’clock in the morning… That’s what I call The Complete Gentleman!” Corie never even consulted her mother about this, she was only thinking about how she wanted her mother to find love and this was how she planned to do
it. Corie Bratter is a very complex character that contains a lot of different personalities and emotions with some of the main three being her sense of adventure, her clingy nature, and her sly ways.
She was as “stubborn as a rusted hinge” (27). Grace is “skinny to begin with” (40). Grandma is another character. She appears to be “a pretty terrible mother” and “mean” that “she wasn’t worth a speck of love” (9). Lacey is a “longed-legged, graceful” ballerina (35).
The play “Lost in Yonkers” by Neil Simon is an extraordinary book to read. The play takes place in the 1940’s during World War 2 where men were being sent off to war but with this particular family, the father did not exactly go to war to fight but rather left for a job opportunity to pay off some debts he owned. In the result of this, he left behind his two young boys Jay and Arty to stay with their grandmother and Aunt Bella. At first, the grandmother did not like that idea and still didn’t after they left but by them staying it gave their aunt Bella courage to stand up to her mother about wanting to feel love through affection. Not only did Aunt Bella felt this way but so did their father and uncle Louie who was a “gangster” ,so the boys
The story begins in “Catfish Row” a small coastal town based on the real town of Cabbage Row in Charleston, South Carolina during the 1920’s. The main protagonist of the story and leading man is Porgy, a disabled beggar man who is known for riding his goat cart around Charleston. Bess is the leading lady of the opera and is in an unhealthy relationship with Crown, a powerful, violent, alcoholic, short-tempered stevedore (dockworker). Act I starts with a lullaby being sang to a small baby by a young mother named Clara, as she sings the men of Catfish Row prepare for a crap game, prior to the game, Crown purchases whisky and Cocaine from the Sportin’ Life, the local drug dealer of the town, during the crap game, Crown who is very drunk kills a local man named Robbins, Crown flees Catfish Row and leaves Bess to fend for herself. Sportin’ Life who is attracted to Bess, he gives her cocaine and asks her to join him in New York, Bess refuses and is now alone, she has no where to go, she is rejected by all of the Catfish Row resident, all except for Porgy who takes her in. A funeral takes place for Robbins, Serena, Robbins’ wife acts very coldly towards Bess when she offers her donation to help pay for Robbins’s funeral cost until Bess explains that she is no longer with Crown, and now lives with Porgy. Soon after, a detective enters and tells Serena that if...
Donna’s father is angry when he finds out and automatically assumes it means she’s going to have sex with many men. This example is representative of the double standard held between men and women. It wouldn’t be an issue if one of the boys had multiple partners or used birth control, but as soon as one of the females does, it is frowned upon. When Jackie hears that Donna is on the pill, she exclaims “you’re going to be so popular,” which implies women can only be well-liked if they please men. Then, Eric’s parents give him “the talk” and while Kitty mentions that foreplay is important, Red disagrees. This implies a woman’s pleasure is not important, as long as men are taken care of. While Laurie is home, Eric finds out that she is failing classes, perpetuating the “dumb blonde”
In the short story, “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, the author introduces Miss Brill as a lonely and a putting on her fur scarf, and getting ready to go to the park. As she sits on the bench and listens to other people talk, she imagines herself as an audience watching the people in the park as if they are on stage. Miss Brill believes that all the action going on in the park, such as the little boy giving the thrown-away violets back to the woman is just a play. However, a closer look at Miss Brill reveals a character that is unable to distinguish between perception and reality.
I’ve introduced you to Shelby and M’Lynn already; now let me introduce you to Clairee Belcher, played by Olympia Dukakis. Clairee is a wealthy widow of the former mayor of Chinquapin Parish, is a refined southern lady and lover of gossip. Truvy Jones, played by Dolly Parton, is a small town “glamour technician”, gossip and reader of “Southern Hair Magazine”. She believes that “there is no such thing as natural beauty”. Many of the scenes in this movie take place in her beauty shop. Anelle Dupuy, played by Daryl Hannah, is a young woman straight out of beauty school and trying to start over in a new town after her husband mysteriously disappears, along with most of her belongings. Last but not least, we have Ouiser Boudreaux, played by Shirley MacLaine. She is abrasive, eccentric, rude and “richer than God”. She also happens to be my favorite character in the movie. The chemistry between these great actresses is what makes this movie one of the best, if not the best I’ve ever seen. When they are all together, it is movie magic! The dialogue and emotions that are so perfectly portrayed by all, will only leave you wanting more. Some of the gossip sessions are very dramatic and will bring you to tears, but some are so funny you’ll want to pee your pants. As Truvy states in the movie, “laughter through tears is my favorite emotion” and this movie delivers
Jane is often very inconsistent about when she likes her husband, and when she hates him. She seems to constantly battle with the idea that her spouse is actually helping her when he tries to prevent her from doing things such as writing (Hume 6). Jane also seems to be fearful of her husband and even states so “The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John,” (Gilman 963). Jane also talks of how she is afraid...
Many people let the conflicts they have take over their relationships with their loved ones. In the plays A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, the readers are introduced to the conflicts between each of the families. The Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun, face conflict when Lena Younger’s husband has passed and has left them ten thousand dollars in his will. The Kowalski family in A Streetcar Named Desire are faced with conflict when Stella’s sister Blanche Dubois comes to town. Most particularly, both plays have each faced challenging hurdles and fatalities during their lives. Although both families come from tremendously diverse backgrounds, they share the same conflicts that occur
The sisters band together to raise funds for their road trip to the “BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD” (1125) distracting them from their fighting. “[T]he women start their fundraising activities with a vengeance” (1143) each of them using their individual skills as well as pairing up to maximise all of their efforts. The ladies use this fundraising frenzy to distract themselves from the “crazy” (1115) life on the rez where there are “[n]o jobs[, and] nothing to do but drink and - forget about [their] Nanabush” (1115). Only Marie-Adele and Zhaboonigan know the truth that Nanabush is back and having “a holiday” (1143) messing with the girls fundraising activities. The sisters finally raise enough money to get to Toronto and “THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD” (1139) and start on their road trip full of “intimate conversations” (1148). Philomena discusses the child she gave up for adoption 28 years ago with Pelajia, Annie and Marie-Adele discuss what is going to happen when she dies, Emily discusses her lost lover with Marie-Adele and Pelajia, and Zhaboonigan and Emily discuss having children. Throughout all of the discussions, each sister gives advice and support to deal with the issues most of which were caused by living on or being from the rez. This part of the road trip was influenced by Nanabush’s attack on Marie-Adele and became important
As they get older Corby’s parenting skills become wiser, she was young once, and she knows how to handle difficult situations that they may go through in their years. Corby hasn’t always had it easy raising two girls. When they were teenagers they had some bad moments so parenting was a little complicated for Corby having to try to teach them, when the mood swings took over. She has always been easy going with her kids, until her girls started giving attitude, and being out of line. Corby is the type of parent that will tell you that you are acting like a little butthole, and you better shape up. She isn’t always the cool parent; she is also the get into gear parent as
For example, in Goodfellas, Henry Hill’s wife, Karen, caught him cheating on her with another woman. At first, she tries to take a dominant, and somewhat masculine, stance against her two-timing spouse. She decides to get aggressive and confront the mistress first before her husband. Karen goes to the girlfriend’s apartment and repeatedly buzzes over the intercom, saying “This is Karen Hill, I want to talk to you. Hello? Don't hang up on me. I want to talk to you. You keep away from my husband, you understand me? Hello? He's my husband. Get your own goddamn man.” Karen accosted the mistress first instead of her husband because it was the easier thing for her to do. She knew that it wasn’t the mistress’s fault that her husband was running around on her, but she was much less intimidated by another woman than by her mobster
The second example is when atticus made the kids go to Ms.Dubose house to read to her. Jem one day snapped and lost his cool. Jem took his rage out on Ms.Dubose bushes. Jem got angry over the years of them being called names buy this old lady Ms.Dubose. To repay Ms.Dubose Jem had to go over to her house and read to her and fix her bushes. One day Jem and Scout went over to her house and she started twitching a bit and doing strange things during their visit. Awhile later once Ms.Dubose died and Atticus explain what had happened to her. Ms.Dubose was addicted to morphine and she was trying to Curb it. The kids soon realized how strong she was being and saw how hard it must of been for her and for the most part forgave her.
...nd alarmed to see her behaving that way. She has to keep "creeping" over John, even in the end, and it shows that a woman is not much different from a man, in the aspect of being a self-governing individual. People need to have control over their own lives and the ability to make their own decisions, even women. People cannot always make assumptions for what is best for others. We have learned this from John: John demonstrates that the best way to help someone is to have the patience to really listen and find out what that person truly wants, not simply making assumptions about what is right when its not in the other's best personal interest. But until every woman is treated in this manner, she will be driven into her own world of insanity where she continues "creeping" over all who try to control her.
Most all of them feature Cornelia’s temper. One incident involving the neighbor's horse led to a spectacle for the neighborhood. It ends with the neighbors daughter calling Cornelia a “crazy old witch” (20). Although the neighbor’s daughter had been the one who had done wrong, it appeared to onlookers that Cornelia was simply a crazy woman. Cornelia was simply standing up for herself. Had Robert done the same, he would have been seen as asserting his power and protecting his property. Cornelia defied the current gender roles of the time, being the more strict of Murray’s two parents, while Robert was the more maternal figure in the
Karen grew up to be a beautiful damsel. She was to be made the member of the church. Her foster mother, the rich old lady bought her a lovely pair of shoes incidentally those shoes were also red in color. This fact has escaped the old lady’s notice, but Karen found them to be exactly what she yearned for. She went to church in those red shoes.