Absent Friends Character Analysis

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                Shrayans 10JD        

                English, Mr. Lynn

Absent Friends – Character Analysis

Paul:

Paul is the husband of Diana in the play. His character is quite proud and he has many self-illusions about himself. He tells everyone that he beats everybody in squash everyday indicating that he is very haughty. He doesn’t treat his wife well and always looks down on her making her feel bad and dumb. When he has an affair with Evelyn and he goes and meets her he doesn’t even bother to make a good excuse to his wife, because he thinks that she is too dumb to realize that he doesn’t like her and has love affairs with other women. He doesn’t leave any opportunity to embarrass his wife like when she jokingly said that when he came to visit her and her sister he never really liked him only John, and Paul took it seriously and tried to put her down by saying that he never came to visit her anyway and it was always his sister he had fancied. Overall I don’t think that Paul is a very likeable character and that he is too full of himself to consider and think about others especially someone so close to him as his wife.

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Diana:

She is Paul’s wife in the play. She is a very over doing character who takes even the most intricate of details very importantly and is very talkative. She likes to socialise which is quite obvious as she set up the meeting in the first place. She is a very pessimistic person and always finds faults in herself. She loves Paul dearly but feels that she isn’t good enough for him and says that she wouldn’t mind if he had an affair with someone unless he told her about it. She feels that she isn’t smart enough for ...

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