Clarissa Mellon

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  • Created by: Lily
  • Created on: 12-04-13 02:18

Personality

Role

  • English student: heavily in love with the work of John Keats. Often mocked by Joe for her passion. She is sympathetic and caring and portrayed as quite vunreable. Forgiving yet stern.
  • Joes long-term girlfriend, she is a sufferer to Jeds affections for her partner yet she is skeptical of Joes situation.
  • She allows a contrast between Jed for Joe which complicates his feelings. Jeds love seems more enduring than Clarissas.

Development (Growth & change)

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  • At the start of the novel she is a passive character (lack of involvement of the balloon incident, inability to accept Jed Parry as a feature in Joes life), she seems to float within Joes perspective as an object which he describes. He sees her as fragile, very stereotypically feminine and often quite pathetic for her passion.
  • Throughtout the novel her "romantic" traits unravel and although she is frequently portrayed as hopelessly romantic, her skepticity and need for evidence display a logic to her
  • At the end her true self is revealed through a letter which fails to highlight a romantic side posing question to Joes narrative.
  • Theres nothing great to say about Clarissa in the novel which is an explanation of Joes narrative. The only "real" Clarissa we get to see is through her letter at the end where she displays nothing similar to the way she is portrayed. Her letter is short and non-descript highlighting a questionable attitude to Joes portrayl of her. Who is Clarissa?
  • Her skepticity displays an investigate nature, one traditionally viewed as scientific, she wants evidence and facts, only believes when she is faced with the truth. Contrast to Joe who is an emotional wreck

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