Character Analysis: Bristow's Celia Garth

One of the many questions brought up while reading this book was the relationship between Celia and her

In the novel, Celia Garth, by Gwen Bristow, the struggles and crucifying aspects of the Revolutionary War took place in a prominent area, Charleston, South Carolina. The war had been going on for nearly five years when this book was entitled, some may think residents would be terrified and cause hectic behavior ,but some were pleased by the rebels. “ They brought guns for the fighting men, plows and tools for the home folks, silks and looking glasses for the people rich enough to ignore the war” (Bristow 9). As the readers read the novel, they might not recognize the symbolism, “green”. Gwen Bristow creates a dichotomy in the book Celia Garth with the color green as a symbolism for several aspects throughout the book whether

Celia Garth written by Gwen Bristow is about a young girl named Celia who lived in Charleston, South Carolina during the American Revolution. She had blond hair with brown eyes and a sassy face . She worked in a fashionable dressmaking shop. Bristow uses circumstances in Celia life to show how experiences creates maturity and depth when a person is willing to fight and overcomes the obstacles of war and relationships.

Chapter six talks about how women bravely handled the situation during the revolutionary war. They were very loyal to their husbands and to the colonial society. “Many women chose to leave their communities rather than remain in the midst of their enemies.” (98)

Celia really cares about Matt when she only focuses on freeing him from the prison. In the book,”The House of the Scorpion”, it states, “You reminded me that the most important thing is to get Matt free.”(48). To Celia, getting Matt out of the prison was her priority and it didn’t matter the cost. This shows that Celia has a really strong motherlike connection with Matt even though Celia isn’t his mother. Celia is a very courageous character. In the book,”The House of the Scorpion”, it claims,”He accepted what God gave him and when God told him it was time to go,he did it.” Matt was amazed by her courage.” (234). Celia has a lot of courage to stand up to El Patron, a very powerful leader who haves people turned into eejits who question him. Celia is probably one of the bravest characters in the book. Celia is very clever. In the book, “The House Of the Scorpion”, it emphasizes ,”I poisoned Matt with foxglove from my garden. I made Matt’s heart to unstable to transplant.” (235). Celia also is very smart for learning about poisonous plants. Celia is also probably one of the smartest characters in the

Life is full of many battles that make it hard to find true happiness. The novel, The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, zooms in on 10 year old Ada’s life during war. Her hateful mother is too ashamed of Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside their small flat. When her little brother Jamie gets shipped out of London to escape war, Ada sneaks out to accompany him. The two are then forced to live with Susan Smith, who is at first displeased to have them.

She might have, “thick, fluffy, gold hair” (Bristow, 1), and an “irregular face” (Bristow, 1), but her appearance changes throughout the book to the people she with to the actions that she makes. “Oh Celia, I can speak Latin and I can speak French- but how does a man tell a girl in plain English that he loves her” (Bristow, 75). In the beginning of the book Celia’s appearance was a young, pretty woman who knows how to shut her mouth, and smile at the people she hates. Then she meets Jimmy. Celia’s appearance then changes to a lovey dovery relationship, where she falls head over heels for Jimmy. Miss Garth’s appearance then changes after Jimmy was shot dead and Luke had asked her to become a spy. “With no purpose no reason- and this is a reason” (Bristow, 276). Celia now has a reason to get up in the morning and her appearance becomes somewhat of a stalker because she listening to find

In the book “the slayer” by Heather Brewer you can tell that he had accepted his destiny when he finally slays his vampier.

Celia is the selfless caretaker and mother figure of Matt. “‘He (El Viejo) accepted what god gave him, and when God told him it was time to go, he did it.’” (234) In this quote Celia is explaining to El Patrón that he should not take Matt’s life for his self benefit but instead should finally accept his time of death that God thinks is right like El Viejo did. “El Patrón was capable of destroying a person who angered him.” (235) This quote shows how selfless Celia is and how much she cares for Matt at the same time knowing that El Patrón could do anything he wanted to hurt Celia.

In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield utilizes Miss Brill’s thoughts and actions and the surroundings to characterize Miss Brill as a lonely character. Mansfield immediately introduces Miss Brill with a very odd scene that shows her conversation with the fur coat. This quickly and effectively establishes the type of person Miss Brill is. As a result, Mansfield suggests that Miss Brill is a lonely and an “abnormal” person to illustrate to the audience how society treats those who are not considered “normal” through the later actions of a young couple.

In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield conveys a character, that is naïve and old, named Miss Brill. When one reads this short story, he or she would tend to sympathize over this character. Analyzing this character is going to be the key aspect, in understanding this short story. Mansfield creates a character that has an enthusiastic/ optimistic, old/ passive, and lonely/ independent personality.

At first glance, Celia's words are what struck me the most. Although this is merely from the beginning of the book, it really provides a good starting point for developing Celia's insecurity problems that are fully revealed later on in the story. To any reader, it is obvious that Celia isn't fully happy if she depends on one single thing as a reason for living. From personal experience, most people could name a list of things to live for other than having children. I think this is a great way to foreshadow that Celia isn't really how she is pictured by the other girls such as Hilly's group of friends, which is a bubbly, slightly-annoying woman that stole Hilly's lover. She's a little broken and is dealing with something awful.

And to complement this Chinese immigrant is the white girl, Lucy Burrows. Lucy is a pure and fragile female whose father is an abusive one. Battling Burrows, Lucy’s father, is a boxer with a desire for taking his anger on the ring out on his daughter. During her first encounter in the movie with her father, Lucy shivers and tries to run away from the man. The man chases, shouts and hits her, his face full of angry and menacing expressions. This is a combination of exactly what a father figure must not be. There is then a close-up of her face where she puts up two fingers to makes out a fake smile on her face. The lighting on her face, just as most of the scenes with Cheng, is soft to portray her as pure, feminine and, in this case, also

The discovery of individuality and following unjust social hierarchies, two dissimilar theme’s that are prominent in E.M Forster’s Room with a view. Lucy Honeychurch, a leading role in the novel, travels to Florence, Italy with her Cousin Charlotte. Their intensions were simple, travel to the beautiful city experience what it has to offer and leave more enlightened by the beauty they experience. However it all changed, the young women were not aware of the life altering events that were to occur during this peculiar yet clarifying week. A week not only to open her her sheltered mind but realize who she was with out the looming vexation of social class. The contrasting views and individualistic becoming of age were

“Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women, even if it is your ardent desire"