Thursday, January 17, 2013
Noah symbolizing reliance on the father?
It is clear during Caroline or Change that Caroline relied and loved her husband. I was thinking during class today when discussing Noah what if he symbolized the father. For example Caroline lashes out at him just as she did her husband, and also she breaks off her "friendly" relationship with Noah as she broke off her marriage with her husband. It is also clear that her husbands love was something she desired and needed; thus could Noah possibly fill those shoes now like Caroline's children do?
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I don't know if she wished to rely on Noah in quite the same way but I do think she felt close to Noah. I feel a big reason she broke their friendship was because she saw him change. He was more like his father Stuart than "the boy who left change in his pocket". But you could argue that he was greedy and self-absorbed from the beginning because his reason behind leaving the spare change in his pocket was not to improve the life of Caroline'd children. He wanted them to talk about him at the dinner table
ReplyDeleteI felt that she wasn't relying on him per say more like she acted the same way she had toward her husband when he hit her. I felt this was similar toward the way Caroline lashed out thus the connection. But I do agree completely that change is her number one reason for breaking off the friendship with Noah; however I felt that it was Caroline who underwent the most severe change.
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