What is Your Interpretation of McEwans Portrayal Of Jed Parry in Chapters 7,8 and 10.

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What is Your Interpretation of McEwans Portrayal

Of Jed Parry in Chapters 7,8 and 10

I think one of the most interesting aspects of ‘Enduring Love’ is subtly and gradually learning more about McEwan’s characters as we watch them progress throughout the novel. All the main characters under go dramatic personality changes and the way in which we perceive them constantly shifts as we get a clearer picture of who they really are or who they have become and it is because of this I believe the novel to be heavily character driven. No character displays these qualities more than Jed Parry, which is natural as throughout the novel we observe him progressing through his mental illness so his character more than anyone’s is always altering in the eyes of the reader and a lot of the time we never really no what to think of him.

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        In these three chapters we see Parry’s character accelerate and slowly he becomes more volatile and in chapter 10 quite explosive, which differs from what we see of him in chapter 7. From the start of the novel Jed is accepted by the reader as quite harmless and to me sometimes verging on comical in his harassment of Joe, it is only until these later chapters he begins to become unstable rather than his prior affable ‘weirdness’. At the start of chapter 7 he maintains this manor, however as it continues, for me it is the first time his almost ...

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