In the movie Brick, my femme fatale character is Emily. I picked this film because when I the trailer I was quite curious on who killed Emily and why. It left me with great suspension and I wanted to find out what really happened to her. While watching the movie I gained a few likes and dislikes about Emily. She was very pretty and stubborn in the movie. Which I think played perfect for the role of the femme fatale character. There were also some dislikes on Emily that I had on her; she wouldn’t accept any help from Brandon when she needed it the most. She stole from the rich kids, which led her to stress and didn’t do any good for her. Another dislike was, she was addicted to brick (heroin). So far in my life, I have not seen anyone like Emily …show more content…
Emily was an insecure girl who wanted in the club badly. Raising everyone’s eyebrows when they saw her. She was a mysterious little human being. She was helpless and needed someone desperately in the club to help her. She was associating with a rich kid in the club and was pregnant by him, but it was never stated who he was, leaving us to wonder who. Emily uses her innocence and her prettiness as to her advantage to get into the rich club where she could get the brick (heroin) due to her addictiveness to the drug. Emily can also get away with things due to her petiteness unlike some other kids in the club.
Emily brought a lot of the trouble to herself. Even though after everything she has done she was still considered as a victim. She was the one receiving the harm even though she caused it by herself. Emily stole the brick (heroin) because she needed more and was highly addicted to it. But even though she stole from the group it shouldn’t not lead to death for any reason. So that leads her as a victim in the movie. Emily was not in control, she was controlled by Tug and the some of the other people in the club. She had to follow strict rules while she was in the rich kids
She didn’t socialize much except for having her manservant Tobe visit to do some chores and go to the store for her. Faulkner depicts Emily and her family as a high social class. Emily did carry her self with dignity and people gave her that respect, based from fear of what Emily could do to them. Emily was a strong willed person especially when she went into the drug store for the arsenic.
Emily Brent is a compassionless, hard hearted woman. Instead of looking at people weaker than her with sympathy, she ignores them. These traits
Because of the way she is raised, Miss Emily sees herself as "high society," and looks down upon those who she thinks of as commoners. This places her under the harsh scrutiny of the townspeople who keep her under a watchful eye. The only others who see Miss Emily as she sees herself are the Mayor Colonel Sartoris, and Judge Stevens.
Emily was not what you would call the average murderer. She was strange however, after her own death (which is known to reader in the very first line of the story) the townspeople described her as '…a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town';(73). When her father died she would not let them take the body for three days, now that's pretty strange. The people in town at the time didn't think she was crazy, they explained her actions like this, 'We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.'; (75) Here is the first indicator that her motives for killing her only love Homer Baron are founded on an emotional type of basis. Her father believed that no one was ever good enough for his daughter, and because she never got close to anyone she didn't know how to let go either, she never experienced that kind of love you get when you meet ...
He was a controlling figure to her. As the narrator was telling us the story, I noticed in a few lines things that her father used to do to keep her home. Looks like he would scare guys away interested in Emily. He did this stuff because he wanted her to stay home and take care of the house. From my point of view he would have more control over her actions and would not let her out of the house.
She is sixteen, so like most other girls around this age worry about the most minor things, and EMily worries most about her looks and beauty. Emily just takes things easy and doesn't worry about a lot of things, mostly just her school work and her looks. She help George Gibbs a lot with homework also, so she is caring towards him in Act I. So Emily is just the
Miss Emily was part of the highly revered Grierson family, the aristocrats of the town. They held themselves to a higher standard, and nothing or nobody was ever good enough for them. Faulkner fist gives us the clue of Emily's mental condition when he refers to Emily's great-aunt, Lady Wyatt. Faulkner tells us that Lady Wyatt had "gone completely crazy" (Faulkner 93). Due to the higher standards they had set for themselves, they believed that they were too high for that and then distanced themselv...
Although I do not agree with how Miss Emily Grierson behaved, but I do not blame her. Harbored from reality her entire life I can expect for her to do some unordinary things. I feel bad for Miss Emily because she was the center of attention in a modernized town where she still practiced her traditional values. Through the eyes the townspeople we get our views of Emily at a distance. Had the story been told from Emily’s perspective we could better understand her reasoning for her bizarre behavior.
The film shows Emily was a meek and fragile woman longing for acceptance and thus she resorts to killing as a way for get her happy
Emily’s isolation is evident because after the men that cared about her deserted her, either by death or simply leaving her, she hid from society and didn’t allow anyone to get close to her. Miss Emily is afraid to confront reality. She seems to live in a sort of fantasy world where death has no meaning. Emily refuses to accept or recognize the death of her father, and the fact that the world around her is changing.
She does a little more of the emotional heavy lifting, a task she completes with skill. Like Nanjiani, she is charming and likeable in that awkward kind of way. The other two standout performances come from Holly Hunter and Ray Romano as Emily’s parents. They both provides layers and nuance to their characters, making them feel like real people.
Emily father was highly favored in the town. Faulkner writes in his Short Story Criticism, “The Griersons have always been “high and mighty,” somehow above “the gross, teeming world….” Emily’s father was well respected and occasionally loaned the town money. That made her a wealthy child and she basically had everything a child wanted. Emily’s father was a very serious man and Emily’s mind was violated by her father’s strict mentality. After Emily’s father being the only man in her life, he dies and she find it hard to let go of him. Because of her father, she possessed a stubborn outlook on life and how thing should be. She practically secluded her self from society for the remainder of her life.
Certainly, Emily is remarkably different in many ways due to a “troubled, lonely childhood” (Frye 288). She has a series of features that makes her unique. In terms of physical appearance, she is thin and dark looking because of health problems. As for personality she is insecure however behaves well and she does not show her emotions. Perhaps her complexity gives the idea or the impression that she needs help and people perceive her as a troubled girl.
Miss Emily’s refusal to change all started when her father had passed away and when asked about it she was in denial and “she told them her father was not dead.” She didn’t want to come to the realization that the only person in her life that loved her and protected her was gone. The fact that he was so controlling of her life and how she lived made Miss Emily afraid of what was going to happen next. She wasn’t used to making her own life choices.