Interpretation Of My Character

My character is Dorothy.

A basic observation of her as a character would be that she is a typical irritating teenager that just avoids all her responsibilities. However when you go more into detail of her story, with the death of her parents she probably has a lot of insecurities and problems. Then as a result she puts up this difficult persona as a façade, as if she is putting up a wall of sorts to cover how she is actually feeling and not letting anyone in which then as a results frustrates her Aunt Em because she cannot understand her or how to help her.

Throughout the story she obviously meets all the different people however with the main three friends they each in a way represent something she is insecure about.

With the Scarecrow he represents brains, therefore it can be the fact that she needs to start using her brain more and to think about everything she is doing and how it is effecting others. To add to this I do think she starts off very naïve and as the story progresses she does get a lot more mature and smarter so it shows her development with this aspect.

For the Tinman he represents heart or affection, this would be how she isn't showing much and failing to let how she actually feels show and keeping her emotions to herself. As she meets all these friends across the show we see her show her emotions more and have a less harsh attitude and by the end of it she can freely share her emotions.

The Lion represents courage, she is afraid to show her feelings and afraid I think to be herself, having to go through all the obstacles she has to it makes her toughen up and linking with the affection she has something to fight for therefore her courage overrides her fear which as a result makes her see how much Aunt Em cares for her from everything she has done for her and how brave she has been.

Overall by the end of the story I feel she has completely come out of herself and found who she is and what to appreciate in life and where she has to go.