Mommie Dearest Mommie Psycho Everyone looks at their parents in different ways. Some people see parents as superheros and people they look up to, whereas others may hardly see their parents or have any sort of contact with them. Growing up, Kristina Crawford lived with her well-known mother whom was an actress in the late 1920s all the way through the early 1970s. The movie, Mommie Dearest, is a film exhibiting the maniacal behavior of Joan Crawford and how she treated her daughter, Christina. In this movie Joan displays symptoms of histrionic and borderline personality disorders. Mommie Dearest was released in 1981 and clearly shows the real side of Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and how she acts toward her adopted daughter, Christina (Diana Scarwid). Throughout the movie, it is shown that Joan adopted Christina more for the attention than for anything else. Joan was very self-centered and loved attention from the media. The movie shows the abuse Christina goes through from when she was a little girl until she is a young woman. Within the film, Joan has several boyfriends, one of the main ones being Greg (Steve Forrest). Greg was the reason that Joan was …show more content…
Eventually she adopted a child and as she grew older, forced her to call her “Mommie Dearest”. Joan was always hard on Christina, therefore overly strict. She always made sure to please the media. or example, during Christina’s birthday party she made sure to get pictures and speak with the paparazzis. One of the most famous scene’s is the wire hanger scene. Christina hung her dress on a wire hanger, which Joan did not like. Following a lot of yelling, Joan proceeded to beat her daughter with the wire hanger. The movie ends with Joan passing away and her children going to see what their mother had left them in her will. It ended up that she had left no money for them, so Christina decided to write a book, diminishing her mother’s
The story shows a relationship between a mother and a daughter through the event of shopping. Mrs. Dietrich, a middle aged mother, longs to have that intimate relationship with her daughter, just as she did when she was pregnant. Nola, a young teenager wanting to spread her wings, just wants her mother to let her go. This time of their relationship is awkward for both of them but is typical for many parents and children.
As the film opens, it quickly becomes apparent that Leon, a married law enforcement officer, is cheating on his wife Sonja with Jane, a woman from their dance class. Jane is also married, but is separated from her husband. It is obvious from the start that Leon and Sonja’s marriage is in dire straits. The other main couple, Valerie and John, are struggling to hold their relationship together after the murder of their young daughter. Valerie also happens to be Sonja’s therapist. Through therapy sessions between Valerie and Sonja, it becomes clear that Sonja is having suspicions regarding Leon’s extramarital activities. Simultaneously, Valerie is counseling a homosexual man named Patrick, who is having an affair with a married man. Both patients seem to be causing Valerie an immense amount of stress, as she begins to question whether John is being faithful to her in the midst of their struggles. As the film progresses, Valerie begins behaving erratically due to her growing jealousy regarding the affair that she suspects John of being involved in. While driving home late one night, Valerie becomes stranded and calls John from a pay phone multiple times, but ...
Jeannette kind of found a boy her age that likes her, but he did cause a few issues with her. Like when he felt all up on her and invaded her personal space. Lori, Jeanette and Brian had trouble fitting in because of how they looked so it was really hard to make real friends. Eventually they got used to it but people were cruel to them and they got into a lot of disputes with neighbors and other people. This place made them toughen up and made them realize how they were living needed to change. The whole family came to the conclusion that they need to fight back so people don’t walk all over
At the end of the story the center stone of their relationship is dust. She loses more than their relationship, she loses grasp and reality and and clings to another. “I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?”(Gilman 9). She has been mentally neglected to the point where she doesn’t know where women come from, and furthermore she believes that she comes from the wallpaper. She has been neglected and pushed away until she slipped off the edge of sanity. Having already fallen off the edge of sanity she then believes that the best way to live is to escape mortality. “But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope...”(Gilman 9). Ending her own life through hanging she makes herself a demonstration of neglect. This also brings an element of irony, because of her drastic neglect she brought drastic attention to her.
and through the loss of her mother and enduring her abusive father, she ended up in a brothel where she met her husband. Through marrying him, she stuck by his side even through murder. That brought on committing murder herself and ended in her death.
... woman who comes from a very rich family. She has plenty of friends and money and she is a good student at Julliard, a school for music. Andrea is not satisfied with what she has and yearns for more. She wants to find out who Goddard is and steal all his money. Just when she has almost fulfilled her dream, she is shot, and left without even her life.
The narrator was forced by her husband, John, to stay in a room all day and rest, he thought that he was doing her good by restricting her activities. In reality he was only doing more harm to his wife and making her go more insane. The narrator told John about the wallpaper and even though John knew that the wallpaper was bothering her he didn’t do anything about it. At the end of the story the narrator locks herself in the nursery and starts stripping the wallpaper off to free the woman, she even tries to capture the woman in the yellow wallpaper. “I want to astonish him. I've got a rope up here that even Jennie did not find. If that woman does get out, and tries to get away, I can tie her!”(Gilman Pg. 9) this quote shows that the narrator is trying to capture the woman in the yellow wallpaper to prove to her husband that the women is indeed real. The narrator’s husband comes in and sees what she’s doing and then he faints, the narrator creeps
threatening to her and her family. She runs into the house filled with fear but then finds herself not
This disorder is characterized by inflexibility and fixation on rules, procedures, and orderliness (Rathus, 2010). At the beginning of the movie you watch Joan scrub her hands, fingernails, wrists, forearms, and face. Then she moves on to cleaning her house, she even goes as far to move furniture around to clean certain areas even after she’s already cleaned them. In one of the later scenes of the movie, Joan attacks Christina after finding one lone wire hanger in her closet in the midst of all plastic hangers. She goes ballistic and throws all of Christina’s stuff around then drags her into the bathroom and orders her to wash her already clean floor. Another obvious disorder exhibited by Joan is the paranoid personality disorder. This disorder causes people to be more suspicious of others and to interpret others’ motives as harmful or evil (p.525). She constantly overworked her children and forced them to give up their toys and gifts from their birthday’s and holiday. She did this because she was concerned about them growing up spoiled and never learning to work for what they wanted. She also did this because she wanted the publicity that came along with her children giving away their toys. She was also extremely paranoid that Christina was making fun of her, even though she was just taking after her mother’s footsteps and acting. Joan found Christina’s skits as mockery. In her later years, Joan was always aware of the younger, prettier, more talented women that were trying to take her job. Lastly, Joan sports the histrionic personality disorder multiple times throughout the movie. A person with the histrionic disorder is overly emotional and dramatic and seeks constant attention (p. 526). This side of Joan comes out at one of Christina’s birthday parties. Reporters ask to get pictures of just Christina, and Joan thinks it ridiculous that they don’t want her. She begins to compete with
She comes from a good family that works for what they have. She marries a good hard workingman. But, Mathilde is not happy the way she is living and she daydreams about having the glamorous life. From having fancy tapestries, grand banquets to tall footmen. One day her husband, M. Loisel, comes homes extremely excited to show his wife an invitation that he has received to go to a fancy ball. She is not happy because she has nothing to wear and she doesn’t want to show up looking ugly with house full of rich people. She got the dress she wanted but then was not happy because she needed jewelry to go with this dress. Mathilde went to her rich friend to borrow jewels from. Of course she went with the most extravagant piece of jewelry, a diamond necklace. Showing up to the fancy ball with everybody adoring what a beauty she is, Mathilde was finally satisfied. When she got home after the fancy ball, she noticed that the necklace she borrowed was missing. Looking franticly for weeks, Mathilde then decided she had to replace the necklace. Replacing the necklace took everything they had and more. Mr. and Mrs. Loisel then became extremely poor with no money to there name. They then had to sell everything had and both now had to work. This went on for about ten years. Mathilde had no beauty to her anymore, she had to work, and do the house keeping. The
Another key point is the dejection these characters face when pursuing their eccentric interests. Joan lives within a time period in which wanting to be anything else but a mother is considered obscene and unimaginable. Her ambition to acquire new knowledge is looked down upon and viewed as a sin, “ I read by night so no one would know. I knew you would not approve “ (Cross 57). Due to the constant reprimands she receives she is left to fight her inner struggles of self-worth and deal with rejection from her family and society. This rejection underlines how she is an outcast within her own time period. As for The Creature he aspires to be a friend to society,yet he is constantly leered at for believing it would ever happen. His belief that
Once inside, he heads for the upstairs. When he reaches the second floor, he finds the door to the master bedroom and enters to find the jewelry he had come for. John takes the watches, bracelets, necklaces, and rings and stuffs them into a small duffle bag. He quickly turns and when he exits the bedroom is confronted by a teenage girl, who he knows to be the daughter of the home owner. John makes a quick decision and hits the girl in the head with the pry bar and she falls to the floor.
Unlike Eunice, who wants to escape unnoticed, Joan desires to proclaim her “victory over the enemies of God” to everyone. Joan’s insanity and
At the death of her mother, a rich old lady takes her to her home and brings her up. The widow of the cobbler gave Karen a pair of red shoes, which she wore for the first time at her mother’s funeral. The old lady who adopted Karen disliked, the red shoes greatly because of Karen’s obsession with them and so she burnt them. Then Karen saw the princess wearing beautiful red shoes. Her love for these shoes got re-ignited.
The night of the ball came and Mathilde looked great; everyone admired her. The evening ended and everyone went home. Mathilde decided that she would look at herself in the mirror one last time before getting out of the clothes. When she did, she noticed the necklace that she admired so much was gone. Mathilde and her husband had to borrow thirty-six thousand francs from people they knew to buy another just like it so they could return it to the friend. Mathilde and her husband were deeply in debt. For ten years they worked day in and day out until finally the debt was paid off.