Do You Want To See A Picture Of My Baby Case Analysis

After Andy makes this speech, Joe is clearly overwhelmed and uncomfortable, and has to leave. The interaction between the two characters in this scene is difficult to decipher. Andy is the one self-discloses to Joe, by revealing that he shares similar feels to which the opera sang about and therefore making Andy appear much more human to Joe. Joe on the hand is the one who receives the self-disclosure and isn’t sure what to do, because this humanizes Andy and Andy reveals his own fears of his life. I understand Joe’s reaction, but in Andy’s vulnerable state and the raw information he shares with Joe the best reaction for Joe would have probably been to stay. You do see however that after Joe leaves that he almost turns around to return and

As mentioned in the section on self-disclosure, Joe goes to a party that is at Andy’s house and is primarily a party full of Andy’s homosexual community. Joe is a heterosexual man and is constantly in need of proving his sexuality to any homosexual who walks up to him and shows any interest in conversation with Joe. He says something like, “That 's my wife. Want to see a picture of my baby?” at one point, one homosexual man says, “Absolutely! Do you want to see a picture of my baby?” Joe is obviously trying to prove he is a heterosexual man and trying to prevent any man from hitting on him, by saying he has a wife and baby but what’s funny is that the homosexual man responds that he has a baby too, which further proves the point that Joe and the homosexual man are not all that different. Joe’s interaction was unnecessary to a point. It’s good to be upfront about that just in case someone is interested in a relationship but how he frantic he said it and he even said after someone asked him what he did for living? Very unnecessary.
There are also a difference in interactions with the homosexual characters and the heterosexual characters. If you notice Joe and his friends, he often has to defend why he took on Andy’s case. While Andy, his homosexual friends and even his partner really don’t care about the sexuality of the individual their interacting with. The one heterosexual character who also isn’t bother by someone’s sexuality is Joe’s wife Lisa, who has many homosexual friends and names off all of them. Joe cannot name one