Her big chance
Lesley is a young actress, who as other actors is trying her very best to make big time. Lesley tries to come across as being a caring, sensitive, and witty but professional individual. However as we discover in the monologue, she is actually a very insecure lonely person, who has created a false persona about her in order to succeed. The monologue is an extended dramatic speech, narrated from a single view point. The writer has written the monologue in this was so as to give Lesley the control over what readers envisage of her. As a result the audience are given an extremely subjective view of Lesley. The writer is able to manipulate the readers so as to force a image of Lesley on to them, yet also inviting the readers to form their own opinion of Lesley, from what is implied through the language used rather than basing our opinion on what we are unambiguously told.
Lesley is quite apparently convinced that she is a socialist and someone who can explicitly talk to anyone she may meet. She says "Now my hobby is people. I collect people". She takes it upon her self to introduce her self to people who she considers to be "interesting". "So when is saw this interesting-looking man in the corner, next thing is I find myself talking to him". She sees her self as being someone who is genuinely interested in individuals, however in reality she is usually just trying to impresses people or simply belittles them by telling them how much of a great person she is. The absurdity of her conversational openings and the fact that she really doesn't understand people is identified when she is talking to Spud. She says "You look like an interesting person. I'm interested in interesting people". Her excessive use of the word implies to the readers that she her self is at all an interesting person, but a dull, tedious individual. How like to hear her self talk.
Lesley is a young actress, who as other actors is trying her very best to make big time. Lesley tries to come across as being a caring, sensitive, and witty but professional individual. However as we discover in the monologue, she is actually a very insecure lonely person, who has created a false persona about her in order to succeed. The monologue is an extended dramatic speech, narrated from a single view point. The writer has written the monologue in this was so as to give Lesley the control over what readers envisage of her. As a result the audience are given an extremely subjective view of Lesley. The writer is able to manipulate the readers so as to force a image of Lesley on to them, yet also inviting the readers to form their own opinion of Lesley, from what is implied through the language used rather than basing our opinion on what we are unambiguously told.
Lesley is quite apparently convinced that she is a socialist and someone who can explicitly talk to anyone she may meet. She says "Now my hobby is people. I collect people". She takes it upon her self to introduce her self to people who she considers to be "interesting". "So when is saw this interesting-looking man in the corner, next thing is I find myself talking to him". She sees her self as being someone who is genuinely interested in individuals, however in reality she is usually just trying to impresses people or simply belittles them by telling them how much of a great person she is. The absurdity of her conversational openings and the fact that she really doesn't understand people is identified when she is talking to Spud. She says "You look like an interesting person. I'm interested in interesting people". Her excessive use of the word implies to the readers that she her self is at all an interesting person, but a dull, tedious individual. How like to hear her self talk.
