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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP: Odd couples (Black girl, White girl Joyce Carol Oates…
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP: Odd couples
Mrs Dalloway
, Virginia Woolf, 1925
Clarissa Dalloway's thoughts during a day
stuck in her memory
youth in Bourton
linked to Peter Walsh, best friend
complex relationship
Peter: humor + outside conventions
Clarissa: quiet life + stays in social conventions
= odd couples because opposites
both unconfident
Clarissa: afraid of doing things wrong: depressed = unconfident
finds in Peter what she doesn't have (bravour to outpass social laws)
Peter: feels like Clarissa always judging him because he's outside conventions + contrary of a quiet life
right after WW1
Black girl, White girl
Joyce Carol Oates 2006
70's: after end of segregation
Genna: narrator, white
feelings about the new relationship between her and Minette
only talks about Minette = dazzlement/obsession
doubts
opposite cultures
Minette does not talk much: only monosyllables
opposites behaviours
Minette = confident, humour
Genna = unconfident: afraid to lose M by every word she says
age: young adults = questionne themselves a lot
Minette: black
don't have her opinion on the relationship: imagination of the reader
DNA
Dennis Kelly, 2008
contemporary play about extreme bullying
teenagers relationships: Phil/Leah
Leah: unconfident = long soliloques, sensitive, talkative
dougbts, confusions about life and their relationship
Phil: confidet, not sensitive (does not react to what Leah says) + not talkative
short writing, no answers
but differencies killed their relationship: Phil reacts when Leah left, it is too late
Intro
In literature, authors always need characters with different relationships. But some are friendships made by total opposites. So we can ask ourselves on what are based these friendship with so many differencies?
Conclu
Odd couples are made by their differencies which make them opposites sometimes. Thses differencies can form a great relationship, but can also destroy these.