At the beginning of this book it appeared that Queaneau made Gertie to be some over dramatic female who would not be able to handle the encounter of the men. Knowing we can all relate to at least one person similar to ditsy characteristics of Gertie it allowed us to get the initial idea that she was hopeless. As the novel went on it became interesting to that Gertie actually had a brain and was quite intelligent, which was completely different than our initial thoughts. She was able to use her femine aspect to trick the guys and eventually saving herself.
The initial jumping back and forth from viewpoints started the reader out a bit confused as they were trying to kepe both stories straight and develop ideas for these characters. This helped with Gertie getting the hopeless idea in the readers mind as they were only given a brief section on her stuck in the bathroom. By jumping back and forth it was easy for the reader to know the paths were going to cross. However, what suprised the audience was the way hopeless Gertie was able to out smart the rebels. It was also interesting that at the beginning we are shown that the rebels are the heroes as they are taking unjust into their own hands, but at the end it is gertie who is the heroine by being able to basically disolve the rebellion herself.
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I agree that Gertie becomes a heroine in a non-conventional sense at the end of the story. Your comments made me think that Gertie kind of stages a rebellion within the rebellion by the way she uses her hypersexuality (for the period it is written in) to take control of the rebels. She seems to be a rebel of the times especially when she is described not wearing a corset or garter-two things which seem to represent women's modesty/constraint in society.
ReplyDeleteYour comments reminded me of how I found the earlier chapter boundaries interesting. The sharp changes of atmosphere and character thought in the earlier chapters kept me intrigued long enough to actually get into the meat of the story.
ReplyDeleteI agree on what you said by Gertie becoming a heroine at the end. Gertie was hiding while others were getting killed. What would she have been thinking of while she was hiding? The story kind of lets the readers predict that the appearence of Gertie would have an effect of the synopsis at the end. And it exactly did.
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