Griet And Catharina

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The movie Girl with a Pearl Earring is set in Delft, Holland in 1665. When Griet father became blind in an accident, she must go to work as a maid to help support her family. She ends up working for a painter, Johannes Vermeer with his wife, Catharina, and their children's. The household also houses Catharina mother, Maria Thins, and her maid Tanneke. Tanneke quickly shows her around the house and numerous tasks that will please the family. However, one of her duties is to clean the art studio, but she feels hesitant about doing this. Catharina tells Griet that it's extremely important that nothing is to be moved or change anything in this room.
Griet becomes familiar to the rest of the family, especially Catharina who is jealous and resentment of Griet. Catharina is pregnant twice while Griet is working for the Vermeer. There is one child, Cornelia, who clearly doesn’t like Griet and tries to make her life miserable. Maria is Johannes’ mother-in-law; she primarily takes care of the family’s finances.
Both Tanneke and Griet travel to the butchers to get some meat for dinner. The first meat that the butcher gave Griet was not fresh enough and she refuses to accept it. Griet meets the butcher’s son Pieter, who is attracted to her.
Life begins to look up for Griet when she starts to enter Johannes world. One day Griet was cleaning …show more content…

One night he was studying his wife, while she put on her pearl earring on and he gets an idea. Griet has a problem with wearing Catharina earring saying that her ears are not pieces. Marie agrees with Johannes that needs to paint Griet with the pearl earring because there is no other way to finish the painting. Marie gives her the earrings. Johannes pierces her ears for her because she can’t pierce them. The camera focuses on her as he paints a picture of a girl with parted lips and a blue

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