Serena
Dangerous Fantasy of Serena
In Ron Rash’s Serena, Serena Pemberton is the most fascinating character. Her husband, Mr. Pemberton is a lumber company overseer. Serena makes it her duty to become his partner and co-supervisor. She works with Mr. Pembertons employees and she is on a mission to get what she wants. She is artistically created with such extreme imagination that it is hard to think of her character as a “human being.” I have chosen to analyze this particular character because in some aspects I admire her, but I also envy some of the qualities that she possesses. Her forte is commendable, her assertiveness is erotic, and her knowledge is outstanding. However, she is manipulative and excellent at utilizing these characteristics against weaker links. It seems as if she is a parody of evil, killing those who challenge her when she does not get her way.
It is evident that there are no limitations as to how far Serena and her spouse will go to protect their logging interest to make more money. Serena and her husband are both undeniably compatible and eerily seem to know what each other are thinking of before words can be spoken. She is definitely a catalysts. Serena orders hits on people, yet she is rarely ever the one acting in her own ordered attack. She encourages her husband to kill Buchanan, a faithful helper with the lumber company and her wish is fulfilled. Serena also orders a hit for her husband’s mistress and their child, but things do not go exactly as planned. Indeed, she enjoys destructiveness on her terms without completing the cold-blooded tasks herself.
Her core quest is to keep Pemberton land from being made part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, to bear her husband’s child and then move to Brazil and its Mahogany forest. She schemes and thrives on the workers terrible resignation. In a way it seems as if she is ungrateful and unappreciative. She and her husband own a vast majority of land, yet she yearns to own the “world.”
In Ron Rash’s Serena, Serena Pemberton is the most fascinating character. Her husband, Mr. Pemberton is a lumber company overseer. Serena makes it her duty to become his partner and co-supervisor. She works with Mr. Pembertons employees and she is on a mission to get what she wants. She is artistically created with such extreme imagination that it is hard to think of her character as a “human being.” I have chosen to analyze this particular character because in some aspects I admire her, but I also envy some of the qualities that she possesses. Her forte is commendable, her assertiveness is erotic, and her knowledge is outstanding. However, she is manipulative and excellent at utilizing these characteristics against weaker links. It seems as if she is a parody of evil, killing those who challenge her when she does not get her way.
It is evident that there are no limitations as to how far Serena and her spouse will go to protect their logging interest to make more money. Serena and her husband are both undeniably compatible and eerily seem to know what each other are thinking of before words can be spoken. She is definitely a catalysts. Serena orders hits on people, yet she is rarely ever the one acting in her own ordered attack. She encourages her husband to kill Buchanan, a faithful helper with the lumber company and her wish is fulfilled. Serena also orders a hit for her husband’s mistress and their child, but things do not go exactly as planned. Indeed, she enjoys destructiveness on her terms without completing the cold-blooded tasks herself.
Her core quest is to keep Pemberton land from being made part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, to bear her husband’s child and then move to Brazil and its Mahogany forest. She schemes and thrives on the workers terrible resignation. In a way it seems as if she is ungrateful and unappreciative. She and her husband own a vast majority of land, yet she yearns to own the “world.”