Three Facets Of Doris Katrina Character Traits

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However, von Trotta would adore showing the interplay between the three facets of Doris, and how Doris uses them to appear as someone that she is not. For the first section of the novel, Doris presents herself as The Innocent, claiming ". . . I think it will be a good thing if I write everything down, because I am an unusual person . . . But I want to write like a movie, because my life is like that and it's going to become even more so" (3). This persona Doris pushes forth makes her seem excitable and almost childish. Despite the reader knowing her true wit, Doris is able "fool" those around her into thinking that she is merely a naïve young girl who barely knows the ways of the world. This is the persona Doris shows the reader at first as …show more content…

As the fur coat is made of genuine squirrel, it is a status symbol. One Doris uses it frequently in addition to her natural charm to appear of a higher class than she typically is. She often remarks how beautiful she looks in it and how she was once able to persuade a sales clerk into giving her a new pair of shoes for free because of it. Though, even before she gained the fur coat, Doris was laying the foundations for this persona. When she lied to the other girls at the theater about being in relationship with Leo, she did so in an attempt to gain respect from those who thought low of her. While this persona gets Doris into some trouble, it seems to be the one that Doris finds the more helpful and the most exhausting, noting: "I constantly find myself in situations where I don't know something and have to pretend I do . . ." and Doris's pretending often leads to rewards, such as: getting a place to stay for a bit, getting someone to buy her a drink, and being able to be in the lap of luxury for a little while (32). The last persona, which arguably is not even a persona, only begins to come through during the last few pages of the book: her true

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