Analysis Of The Last Time I Saw Paris

Unfortunately, Marion consideration of allowing him his daughter is postponed. In end of the book it says “But he wanted his child, and nothing was much good now, beside that fact. He wasn’t young anymore, with a lot of nice thoughts and dreams to have by himself” (Fitzgerald 400). Charlie wanted to make changes in his life, but the people around him do not accept that he is a better man and his alcoholic past will continue to hold him back from living the future he wants with his daughter. “Babylon Revisited” adaptation The Last Time I Saw Paris, directed by Richard Brooks Charlie’s actor falls in love with Helen who has more a fun spirited and loving personality than Charlie. The Factors that lead Charlie to drink alcohol are his frustration

His attitude and his actions change when he is bonding his daughter. But the childish behaviors between Charlie and Helen as well as Charlie’s excessive drinking are actions that perceive Charlie as unfit farther .Charlie and Helen attend a party where they see people who they met before. Charlie and Helen leave the party with other people they seem to be fond of. Omer Saatciogulu, Rahsan Erim, and Duran Cakmak’s article also address in their article that “excessive use of alcohol often takes places outside the home” (126). The next day Helen is upset with Charlie and believes he has been close with the women he left the party with. In the film, Helen tells Charlie “Tonight is another night, she will be beautiful again, and you will be full of wine again” (Brooks). Charlie tries to reassure Helen that nothing happen but she is uncertain. According to Catherine Grello, Deborah Welsh, and Melinda Harper, the more alcohol that a person consumes, the higher chance of engaging in a sexual encounter will happen (257). At this point, it is visible that Helen and Charlie are not as happy and in love with each other as they were when they first

At the same time, Helen is locked outside the door, pleading Charlie to let her in. Charlie is unable to hear Helen, so Helen walks to her sister’s house in the icy and rainy weather. This causes Helen to get terribly sick and eventually causing her to die. Undoubtedly, this gives Helen’s sister justification to why she detest Charlie. Marion goes to court to get custody of her niece. Helen’s father warns Charlie of Marion intentions to keep his daughter. However, Charlie feels hopeless and hurt that he may have caused Helen’s death. Marion feels that Charlie is unfit as a father to take care of his daughter. In Brooks, Gaines and Mueller’s article “Children’s Television Watching and Their Fathers’ Drinking Practices,” they explain “children of alcoholics are less likely to be involved in family life or to be supervised well by parents and are more likely to be exposed to very stressful situations (27). This can justify Marion’s concern with allowing Charlie custody of his daughter. However, at this point in Charlie life, he also feels that his daughter will be better off with Marion. In the film Charlie says “she’s right, I’ll hurt Vicky just as I did Helen” (Brooks).Charlie said this out of disappointment of himself and it will not be until later, that he realizes that he wants his daughter to be with him.