| re: Charmless |
| Posted by: reed23 05:52 pm EST 02/10/22 |
| In reply to: Charmless - Genealley 03:38 pm EST 02/10/22 |
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"The smartest woman in town falls for him just because she's lonely and resigned to her lot."
Actually, her eyes are suddenly opened when she sees her withdrawn, self-conscious, sad little brother explode with verbose excitement at the arrival of the band instruments and clothes. It's at that moment that she sees something in Hill that he doesn't believe himself – that his con can transform lives for the better. And it's at that moment she decides to withhold the damning evidence of his con.
Winthrop is the centerpiece of the plot – it's his reaction at the end of Act One that opens Marian's eyes; and it is to him that Hill, for the first time in his dubious career, admits his fraud to anyone other than his longtime friend Marcellus. And it is to him that Hill reveals that he lives partly in the dreamworld he creates for his marks ("I always think there's a band, kid.") |
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