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I think the way she faced them was smart. She had many things happen to her and also to her friends, family, and the town. And if I were to be in her place I would honestly be scared because of all the people she faced in this book were scary and can kill you. But I would still do the same things she had done in the book to make sure I wouldn’t hurt myself and also my friends and family. I think it would be tough and frustrating to have all these problems to solve because if I can't do much to help these problems, I would feel completely frustrated with myself. But Daisy always had hope that things would end up well, she believed good things would happen and that good would always beat the evil. In the end, I like the way things ended and I wouldn’t change a

On the positive end, Geraldine Page’s interpretation of the elder of the two cousins was not only convincing, but portrayed so well that some portions of the movie seem questionable, or even sometimes accidental. One such instance can be seen in an earlier part of the movie when she and Buddy first began their departure from home. Her speech often fades gently into inaudibility when speaking to Buddy and their dog, Queenie. This dynamic range is enough to make the viewer question what the cause of this may be. One may ask if this stems from Page forgetting lines upon their first viewing, but after multiple viewings, I’ve noticed that she is accurately showing how much her character’s mind drifts from time to

peaceful things out of their European visit, but later the consequences are tragic. Daisy, in fact,

Now that I can look back over my life I see that me and Daisy probably wouldn't have lasted long, even if she did leave Tom for me, as Tom was a spiteful man and he would have found a way to rip me and Daisy apart just as he had told George that something needed to be done about me. You see if me and Daisy had run away together, he would have hired someone to hunt me down and kill me. I did not see this man as being very dangerous when I was alive,

delight.” (4.143) Daisy just wants to be loved like any regular girl. As described in the book Tom

Anna Luise’s mother is very similar to the characters of Daisy in The Great Gatsby and Mrs Montgomery in Doctor Fischer of Geneva, in that they all hurt people in pursuit of their own gains, thus leading to the conclusion that love and tenderness are not the hallmark of femininity. Anna Luise’s Mother, although an overlooked character, is one who symbolises Fischer’s contempt for humanity. Moreover, the speaker’s inability to commit herself to her husband, Dr Fischer, is made apparent when Greene states she ‘was leaving him by entering a region into which he couldn’t follow her’; perhaps suggesting that she has found peace by leaving him. The words ‘leaving’ and ‘region’ reinforces the idea of abandonment. The juxtaposition of the words ‘leaving’

“You’re Convinced there was nothing important here…Nothing that would—point to any motive?” (Glaspell, pg. 5, 1908). In 1916, Glaspell worked for Des Moines daily news as a reporter where she later met her husband George Cook who was a play director. Together they wrote and produced plays, two of which are Trifles and Jury of Her Peers which are based off a crime scene she encountered while being a reporter. Glaspell’s plays are on the feminist side focusing on the roles women are forced to play in society and their relationships with men. Motive is the overall theme found in both versions of Glaspell’s story and is evidenced through the Wright’s relationship, the anger portrayed in various ways, and finally, regret found in Mrs. Wright.

Also, it shows how Daisy changes throughout the five years of separation from one another. In reality, she changes because of her relationship with Tom Buchanan to fit in

Miller presents the character of Mary Warren in an important way to show the message of status and power. Mary Warren’s character is seen to be vulnerable and timid. The key events that makes her role important are her roles in the girls’ group, the scene with the poppet and her confession in court. Through the events in the play Miller portrays Mary Warren with tension and suspense. This makes the audience question her status and power.

The paradox here is that Tom is, in a sense, George himself as Tom's wife, Daisy, is in the process of being taken away from him.

Through the course of the novel, Daisy handles her husband?s affair very calmly. Even when Tom?s mistress telephones during dinner Daisy exclaims, ?it couldn?t be helped,? (20). Although she must obviously be hurting deeply on the inside, Daisy displays no physical signs of distress over her husband?s affair. This makes her appear stronger than she really is.

When taking the time to examine the characters of Annette Reille, from the play, and Nancy Cowan, from Carnage, it is easy to find their likenesses, but there are also some noticeable differences. One of the main reasons for all of these differences is merely different interpretations of the character by different readers. For example, the tone in which certain lines are said or in the way a certain action is portrayed can change the whole personality of a character. When reading, the reader portrays each of the characters as he/ she believes them to be, but then another reader could have a difference of opinion and change the whole attitude; this was the case if you consider the readers to be myself and Kate Winslet.

In Parker’s film adaptation, his emphasis of the sub-plot between Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism, while becoming more entertaining, further detracts from Wilde’s concerns and only serves to strengthen the film as a romantic comedy. In Wilde’s play, Chasuble and Prism’s

Daisy Buchanan is yet another victim of an unfortunate miscast as she is depicted by Carey Mulligan, who does not quite enact the innocent cruelty of a young woman who still has the mind of a teenage girl and still believes that was allowed to reach out for what she wanted without consequence. While she is supposed to be

Have you ever wondered what people say about you behind your back or what they think of you what you're not there? This book strongly shows what other people think of Minnie Wright and their true opinions come through. Trifles is a play written by Susan Glaspell. It is a murder mystery about who killed John Wright. Towards the end of the story, we come to the conclusion that the murderer was Minnie Wright, John wrights wife. Minnie Wright took her own husband's life because he had killed the one thing that she had loved most, her bird. She thought as if she needed revenge on him for doing what he did, this being said she killed him in the same way that he had killed her beloved bird; a rope around the neck. Susan Glaspell decides to tell this story mainly through the eyes and minds of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. While the main plot of the story is about Minnie Wright and her actions, she never appears in the story because well, she doesn't have to. Susan Glaspell chiefly relies upon the characters in the story to give the readers and audience a sense of what type of person Minnie Wright is. Readers can sense her presence through the way she and her house are described. The characters say things like, “here is a nice mess (referring to her house)” (118.) or “she looked queer” (116.) These small statements can help us form an image of what Minnie Wright is like when she is not even present. Minnie Wright’s absence also allows the women to sympathize with her and therefore makes the women feel obligated to keep her secret.