How Is Catherine Presented In The Crucible
HOW IS CATHERINE PRESENTED
Catherine is an attractive, energetic and cheerful seventeen year old girl. Having rarely left Brooklyn, she's incredibly naïve and feels she is ready to go to work. Catherine begins the play in all innocence; she is ready to accept people for what they appear to be as she sees no danger. She is dutiful and loving to her elders and only thinks of taking a job because the principle advises it which shows her immaturity and incapability to make decisions by herself.
Catherine acts very childish in front of Eddie as she finds it hard to stand up to him because he's done so much for her over the course of her life. Catherine is easily upset when she feels she has displeased Eddie and feels she needs his approval for everything that she does: right at the start, she is desperate for him to admire her new skirt “you like it?”. Catherine obeys Eddie and does everything he asks, for example to stop “walking wavy” and for her to take off her high heels “what’s the high heels for, Garbo?”. She doesn’t argue with him and does what Eddie asks almost immediately. She will do anything in her power to make Eddie proud of her. …show more content…
She starts to grow up as she wears short dresses and high heels, like “Garbo”, or “Madonna” as Eddie describes her as. Even so, her first sight of Rodolpho brings wonder and delight. From the moment the two men enter, Catherine shows no interest in Marco, only Rodolpho. She comments on how blond Rodolpho is “he’s practically blond!”. When she asks Rodolpho if he is married, her question may be just a request for information but the audience will feel that there is something deeper going on here “You married to?”. Her interest increases when she discovers he can sing, and Rodolpho shows his first real connection with Catherine when he accedes to her request to sing 'Paper Doll'. She is awestruck by him and very impressed with his singing “it’s
Catherine is an attractive, energetic and cheerful seventeen year old girl. Having rarely left Brooklyn, she's incredibly naïve and feels she is ready to go to work. Catherine begins the play in all innocence; she is ready to accept people for what they appear to be as she sees no danger. She is dutiful and loving to her elders and only thinks of taking a job because the principle advises it which shows her immaturity and incapability to make decisions by herself.
Catherine acts very childish in front of Eddie as she finds it hard to stand up to him because he's done so much for her over the course of her life. Catherine is easily upset when she feels she has displeased Eddie and feels she needs his approval for everything that she does: right at the start, she is desperate for him to admire her new skirt “you like it?”. Catherine obeys Eddie and does everything he asks, for example to stop “walking wavy” and for her to take off her high heels “what’s the high heels for, Garbo?”. She doesn’t argue with him and does what Eddie asks almost immediately. She will do anything in her power to make Eddie proud of her. …show more content…
She starts to grow up as she wears short dresses and high heels, like “Garbo”, or “Madonna” as Eddie describes her as. Even so, her first sight of Rodolpho brings wonder and delight. From the moment the two men enter, Catherine shows no interest in Marco, only Rodolpho. She comments on how blond Rodolpho is “he’s practically blond!”. When she asks Rodolpho if he is married, her question may be just a request for information but the audience will feel that there is something deeper going on here “You married to?”. Her interest increases when she discovers he can sing, and Rodolpho shows his first real connection with Catherine when he accedes to her request to sing 'Paper Doll'. She is awestruck by him and very impressed with his singing “it’s