Role Of Female Characters Essay Research Paper

Role Of Female Characters Essay, Research Paper

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There s a famous saying that goes like this: Behind every great man,

there is a great woman. However, not all men are great. All men have flaws

and women help men get through tough times and problems so they can come to

resolutions. In the novels The Man Within, Lord Jim, and The Catcher in the

Rye

and in the movies Fight Club and American Beauty, the female characters

relationships with the male characters are important and help the male

characters with their respective problems.

In The Man Within, Andrews problem stems from the fact that he has two

separate personalities. In the novel, Andrews said, He was, he knew,

embarrassingly made up of two persons, the sentimental, bullying, desiring child

and another more stern critic. If someone believed in me- but he did not believe

in himself. Always while one part of him spoke, another part stood on one side

and wondered, Is this I who am speaking. Can I really exist like this. (Greene

24). What he was trying to say is that 2 personalities dominated his life. One of

his personalities was called the coward. This personality of his was really

emotional. He would look at ordinary things and stare at them for long periods

of

time and see a lot of beauty in them. This personality also prevented himself

from standing up for himself and against his fears. One of those fears was his

nemesis in the novel, Carlyon, who he was trying to flee from because he

betrayed him by giving the local authorities information about his smuggling ring.

Another one of his fears was the fact he couldn t live up to the legend of his

Father, who was known as a great smuggler but never treated Andrews the way

he wanted to be treated. The critic in Andrews always second guessed

everything he did. Whenever Andrews did something or was thinking about

doing something, the critic in him would question what he did. One example of

this was when he was about to tell Elizabeth why he was running and he was

about to fabricate a story but his hard, critical self said, You fool, she ll see

through that. Haven t you enough gratitude to speak the truth (Greene 70).

These personalities are polar opposities and Andrews lets them confuse him to

the point where he doesn t know what to do sometimes. This is where Elizabeth

helps him a great deal.

Elizabeth s relationship with Andrews affects him a lot and helps him

come

to a resolution at the end of the novel. Half way through the novel of The Man

Within, Andrews falls in love with Elizabeth. Not just because she s beautiful,

but

because she has attained a balance in her personality that Andrews wish he

had.

Elizabeth has found a median and that interests Andrews a lot and is one of the

reasons he is very attracted to her. Elizabeth gives some good advice to

Andrews. At one point, she gives Andrews advice on how to combat the coward

in him by saying, You hesitate and hesitate and then you are lost. Can t you

ever shut your eyes and leap (Greene 86). Elizabeth tries to help Andrews by

making him go to the town of Lewes to testify against Carlyon. She also was

willing to help Andrews confront Carlyon at the end of the book. However, it

wasn t until Elizabeth was killed that Andrews found balance in his personality.

He found a middle ground between the coward and the critic but it took the death

of Elizabeth to find it. Andrews also finds out that it wasn t Carlyon that he was

running away from the whole time. In the novel, he says, There had been no

struggle with Carlyon but only with his father. His father had made him a

betrayer and his father had slain Elizabeth and his father was dead and out of

reach. But was he. His father s was not a roaming spirit. It had housed itself in

the son he created. I am my father, he thought, and I have killed her (Greene

215).

In Lord Jim, Jim s problem is that everyone thinks he is a coward and he

eventually starts believing it. The reason for that is because he jumped off a

ship, called the Patna, filled with eight hundred Islamic pilgrims that he thought

was sinking but it wasn t. For this he goes to court, where it turns out everyone

at the town is against him and thinks of him as spineless. Jim is a romantic with

a vivid imagination and the fact that people think of him that way makes him feel

ashamed and uneasy and he starts believing that he is actually a coward. He

wants to be known as a hero and someone who is known for doing brave deeds.

All he wants is to have a second chance at life so he can prove himself.

Jim s relationship with Jewel in Patusan is very important to him. Jewel is

a Malay that Jim meets and falls in love with. From what is read in the novel, it

seems that Jim feels as if Jewel and Patusan represented a second chance. A <

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