By producing a comic effect in the British novel, Kiss and Tell, Alain de Botton utilizes perspective characterization to embody the idea that no matter how much we want to be disjointed from our parents and be nothing like them, there will always be a part of us that mirrors that of our parents.
The narrator further characterizes his girlfriend and her parents by illustrating them as he saw them, when he and Isabell spotted them in the theater. By the couple coming in contact with her parents is ironic because it shows that even though Isabell will do everything in her power to prove she is nothing like her parents, she is in regards to the fact that they are both at the same play, on the same night, due to common interests. When Isabell first realizes that her parents are there, she can predict what they are doing just by looking at them from across the theater, “this is prime argument territory for them, Mum will be asking Dad where he put the car park ticket and he’ll get flustered because he’ll just have dropped it into a bin by mistake” and once her parents notice their daughter and her boyfriend in the venue and go over to talk to them, what Isabell predicted, is right on point. This further implies the characterization of the family because it depicts the relationship ties between the family and just how predictable they may be. One particular conversation between mother and daughter about what Isabell was wearing, “oh, well, it’s very nice, pity you don’t have more of a cleavage for it, but that’s your father’s fault”, this suggests the certain type of conjunction between the two, which presents what seems to be a rather unrefined relationship.
No comments:
Post a Comment