Got an essay due tomorrow on how Paul Sheldon's relationship with Annie Wilkes turns from fear into trust as he needs her to stay alive..
anyone find any good sites for notes, or in general, answers lol.
own ideas would be great too!!
2007-02-25 10:46:55 · 7 answers · asked by 18/M/Scotland 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
First bit...still looking! ;-)
http://members.tripod.com/~charnelhouse/misery.html
A little more...
http://www.eng.umu.se/monster/Helga/Documents/annie_wilkes.htm
Okay I'm finished looking...
.....In Paul Sheldon's own analogy, he is a trapped parrot, a gaily colored bird that is trapped away from Africa, and must therefore return to Africa in order to be free. So where does Paul go, in what we hope will be the very last Misery Chastain novel? He goes to Africa. He goes to the mysterious continent which evokes, for him, the frightening implacable solidity of the woman's body. And Africa is the place where the parrot originated, just as Sheldon himself originated inside the body of a woman.
The inner story is indeed a reflection of the outer story, for in both "novels" Paul Sheldon is wrestling with his Muse. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he is drawn to her power. Annie is probably not the first woman who has seemed hostile and scary to this character -- nor the first who (as in the opening pages) breathes life into him -- like the ancient pneumos, the breath of fire, that the Goddess is supposed to breathe into Human. Sheldon is obsessed with her: he reads her scrapbook, he continually recreates in his imagination the scenes of her domination of him. He is a feverish, inspired worshipper of his goddess, and like "the monk" in M. G. Lewis's 18th century gothic (which we know King has read, because it shows up in Danse Macabre), he has a memorable encounter with some bees....
http://www.oceanstar.com/horror/misery.htm
2007-02-25 10:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mathlady 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fear and then determination to find away to be free of her.I didn`t see where he trusted her at any time .he needed her help to heal after she broke his legs.He used the the book she wanted him to write, another addition to his series he had finished, to keep her attentive and happy until he could find away out.
2007-02-25 14:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by greenstateresearcher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would agree with the first answer that it changed from fear to dependency- for his novril tablets and also he wanted to keep her sweet so she wouldnt hurt him.
As the book goes on you also learn that he is staying for the sake of the book he is writing in her house.
2007-02-25 20:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Such an entertaining book and movie.
2007-02-25 11:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it didn't turn from fear to trust...it turned from fear to dependency!
2007-02-25 10:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.cheathouse.com/essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=19306
2007-02-25 10:54:52 · answer #6 · answered by pinleyboy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery
2007-02-25 10:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋