Choose one of the following characters from The Roaring Twenties (Dir. Raoul Walsh) to explore:
Eddie
Bartlett (James Cagney)
Jean Sherman (Priscilla Lane)
George Hally (Humphrey
Bogart)
Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn)
Panama Smith (Gladys George).
In an organized response, answer the following questions:
1. What does your character want out of life?
2. How does your character go about achieving what
he or she wants? Does he or she reach his or her goals?
3. What moral dilemmas does your character face?
Scoring:
Your response will be graded on a scale of 1-5 in the following categories:
Content (Depth of Ideas)
Organization (Structure)
Grammar / Conventions
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Total = 15 Points
When Lloyd Hart worked for Eddie Bartlett, I believe all he wanted was to appease his boss. Lloyd didn’t care about money because when Eddie gave him more than he earned, Lloyd was hesitant to take it. However, when he was introduced to Jean Sherman, his goal in life changed. I believe all Lloyd Hart wanted in life was to be with Jean Sherman, start a family, and settle down. I believe this because he’s been infatuated with Jean when Eddie brought her in. Lloyd watched her perform and couldn’t take his eyes off her.
ReplyDeleteIn order to be with Jean Sherman, Lloyd Hart had to hide their relationship. Eddie Bartlett was more than infatuated with Jean Sherman, and even proposed to her. Jean and Lloyd had to meet in secret in order for Eddie not to find out. When Lloyd was finally tired of sneaking through alleyways, he decides to quit the liquor business and be with Jean. In the end, Lloyd reached his goal to be with Jean Sherman. He had a little boy, a stable home, and a legal job.
Some moral dilemmas Lloyd faces is betraying his boss, Eddie Bartlett. In order to reach his goal to be with Jean Sherman, Lloyd had to intentionally hid their relationship from the man he’s been working years for. Hart pretty much betrayed his friend and the man who has been paying him. He knew Eddie was in love with Jean, but chose his and Jean’s happiness rather than Eddie’s. Lloyd also had to quit the liquor business, knowing he would be in danger if he were to tell anyone about it.
Hannah De La Cruz
Period 4
n the Roaring Twenties, Eddie Bartlett wants to continue to live his life before he entered the war. When he came back, he tried his best to find a job, but know one would hire him, he decided to start his own business. Eddie Bartlett didn't really achieve his dream, but he came up with an alternative to his way of living. While Eddie was working his way to the top, he was forced to make decisions that he wouldn't like. For example, when Eddie was first trying to decide what he should he do for a job, he wasn't sure at first if he should open his own company. While he was deciding about what to do with his life, he chose to go against the law so he can have a better life than what he originally had.
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Period 4
Eddie Barlett, just wanted to live life to the fullest and find any oppurtunity he can afford to do. He had served in the first great war and now since it had ended, Eddie seeks to find work. Unfortunatley there is'nt much job offers for the returning vetrans and are left jobless. As for Eddie he trys to find everyway to get a job since he lost his former job as a taxi driver or some kind of mechanic I believe so ? However a old friend of his, hooks him up with his Taxi cab job and agrees to the offer. As time passes by he met's a women named Panama whom he saved here life from prision after he got himself in trouble and is framed for getting Panama in touble for her ilicit business mistakenly by having his lawer to help her out of prision and actually he himself gets iton his own trap. But for that Panama bails him out for his loyalty acts and from them they become close friends from then on. As I try to explain Eddie's situation there are complicated aspects that from his past that had brought him to his downfall. As Eddie and Panama become very loyal for eachother; Panama introduces Eddie to the booming business of bootlegging. To Eddie it seems a very risky task to handle but, he takes it anyway because it is a faster way to make good money. As he handles the business of the black market he seems very qualified for it and becomes a hot shot. He makes his own business out of and allows only his closest friends from war and home to work for him even though he really would'nt trust them to take anything for granted like I said it is a very risky job. As for this Eddie achieves his goal to have a affordable job to handle suits his leaving as he enjoys it. Things seem working well for him however, he met's a girl named Jean Sherman a Girl he once denied and now he had fallen for her for such a attarctive women she had become and a very talnted person. Besides his bootlegging business being one of his main priorities, Jean Sherman has now became his main goal. with he being so inlove with her he would'nt know what would hit him hard when finds out his former lawer and employee "Lloyd", takes his girl fom him. Now Eddie is in a dilemma in how to conquer her heart from Lloyd, and at the same time Eddie is facing some harsh time handling and taking care of his business from rival syndicates. For him thinking of Jean he is distracted in trying to keep her and fails when he finaly gets to try and could only prove nothing, just being a hot head lately for his depresssions. So he is left alone only thinking of his long lost love and loses his reputation as a Hot shot in the bootlegging market. Eddie would eventually become a regular citizen and working as a taxi driver once again.
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After the war, all Eddie Barlett wanted was to come back to his job in New York city and live a normal life. After serving for the army, Eddie thought that he will get his job back but after being gone for two years, New York has changed. Someone else has his job, and he is left unemployed. Eddie really wanted to make some money in order to live his life; therefore, he had no choice but to sell alcohol. He kept selling and selling, and turned into a bootlegger.
ReplyDeleteI believe that he did not reach his goal because being a bootlegger was not his plan in the first place, he wanted to live his life normally, but he needed money so he had no choice. It is crazy because he was serving his country in the beginning, and then at the end he turned out to sell cheap alcohol to people to earn some cash.
In The Roaring Twenties by Dir. Raoul Walsh, the main character is Eddie Bartlett. He was the only one that really caught my attention. At the beginning he survived world war one then went back to his hometown, New York. His plan was to go back at the car shop. His body said he when he came back he would save his spot, but he didn’t so he started finding a job but got rejected all the time. His last choice was to became a bootlegger. His goal was to be the top of all the bootleggers business and get so much money that everyone would have to respect him. He achieved this by being his own boss. Eddie slowly started his own company and buying a lot of Taxi which then send the alcohol to the clients.One thing he concurred was cheating his clients by putting more water than alcohol. Eddie dealt with his problems by using violence or he just doesn’t deal with them at all. He seemed like he just wanted to get over the problem instead of talking it over and take more time on it.
ReplyDeleteJean Sherman, an average middle class woman during the 1920’s wants to be a singer. She meets Eddie Bartlett, a wealthy bootlegger, and he becomes ‘sweet on her’. Although she doesn’t love him back, she allows him to pay for her singing lessons, clothes, and get her hired as a singer at a popular nightclub for $100 a week. After she is a well-known and popular singer, she leaves Eddie for his lawyer, Lloyd. Although she reaches her goal, she took advantage of Eddie’s affection for her. Throughout the film, she knew that using Eddie was morally wrong. She faced the dilemma of using him and achieving her dreams, or telling him the truth and probably never becoming a famous singer or being wealthy. She ends up using him and achieving her goals, but in the end she tried to make things right by telling Eddie the truth and marrying Lloyd.
ReplyDeleteAll Eddie Bartlett wanted from life after returning from war was his old job at the automobile shop, but when he was denied his job he went on to jail for accidentally selling liquor. After his time was done, he wanted to actually produce and sell liquor illegally under the Prohibition act. Eddie Bartlett was money hungry. Eddie continues on to achieve this by selling his liquor though a taxi service for delivery. When Eddie is producing too much, he wants to get more customers, but since he isn't well know he decides to rob a ship and a storage for captured liquor from an enemy bootlegger. Eddie does in fact reach his goal, but he becomes too money hungry and is too wrapped up in his business. The moral dilemma he faces is his girl, Jean Sherman, who wants him to quit bootlegging. Eddie loves her, but she doesn't love him. Eddie says he'll stop, but his business keeps growing and growing. Eddie eventually loses the business when the stock market crashes because he has to sell his shares. This is the end of Eddie's bootlegging career.
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Lloyd Hart just graduated law school when he fought for the US in the war. It was revealed that all Lloyd would like to do is return home and follow his job as a lawyer. When the armistice was signed, not only was Lloyd happy, but as well as all of those soldiers who would like to return to normalcy. From the movie, Lloyd seems to be one of the lucky ones who can return to normalcy. Being a lawyer is something he has yet to work with, so it seems sort of innocent that his first job will get him caught into work.
ReplyDeleteLloyd gets caught up with Eddie’s alcohol business when Eddie gets caught delivering alcohol, during the age of Prohibition, that requires a lawyer to help him. Lloyd, from then on, helps Eddie with legal business. In a way, Lloyd reaches his achievement of going back to normal. He has a case of being a lawyer because he would like to return to work, like many returning soldiers. Of course, working with alcohol during Prohibition is bound to caused dilemmas.
Lloyd worked with Eddie as a lawyer at first, but then after he became their person that handles the business and legal things. He also seems to fall for the girl that Eddie likes. Luckily for Lloyd, he gets the girl, sadly for Eddie, he doesn’t. Lloyd and Jean start to see each other behind Eddie’s back, until Lloyd’s conscious is clear and splits himself off with the alcohol business; his conscious seems to clear when Eddie and George return from stealing alcohol and he discovers that they killed their sergeant. Like many tied with illegal business, Lloyd’s life is in danger if he tells any authority of what he has seen and done with Eddie and his associates.
Jerome Manera
Period 3
Eddie Bartlett is a veteran of World War 1. All Eddie wanted was to get his old job back after coming back from war, but is turned down. He starts his business of selling liquor after falsely being framed for selling illegal liquor or bootlegging while working as a taxi driver. Eddie wants to go big with his business of selling illegal liquor because it seemed to help him make easy money. He reaches his goal for a while, but soon fails due to his own greed for money and the stock market crashing.
ReplyDeleteSome moral dilemmas Eddie has is that he is in love with a girl named Jean Sherman and his greed for money. He fell in love with Jean and was willing to do anything to help her and please her. Jean doesn't like Eddie in the bootlegging business and tells him to quit. He says he will quit but doesn't because of his hunger for more money.
Diana Xu
Period 4
Before, during and immediately after the war, Eddie Bartlett was a respectable man. He wasn't greedy and he tried to help others. In the first scene, he tries to calm down a young soldier, Lloyd Hart. After he returns from war, he tries to get his old job back. After being denied, he tries to find work. However, this task was not as easy as he had expected. After not being able to find work, he decides to help his friend with his taxi. One day while driving, a customer asks him to go inside and sell alcohol to Panama. They get caught and Eddie is thrown in jail for a short period of time. Once he gets out, he decides that the only way for him to make a living is to be a bootlegger. Bootlegging seemed to be an easy way to earn money. Eddie's decision to become a bootlegger was the result of the fact that he couldn't get any other job. Eddie's business flourishes. He is able to sell alcohol that is cheap to make at very high prices. Eddie becomes rich. He lives a lavish lifestyle and is able to afford thousands of taxis. For a brief period of time, Eddie reaches his goal. He then gets involved with George Hally. Hally is a violent and murderous man, and Eddie does not know if he can trust him. Eventually, Eddie's empire collapses. He has to go back to being a cab driver.
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Period 4
Panama Smith is a woman that likes to have fun and be entertained. She enjoys her life as a singer at clubs. Like everyone else in the 1920’s, she likes to drink. When Panama met Eddie, It was not too long before she started to gain feelings for him. Panama knows that Eddie likes Jean and that she can’t compete against her so she doesn't really tell Eddie how she feels. You can tell that Panama is jealous of Jean because Eddie constantly talks about her strengths. Panama is a loyal friend to Eddie. All Panama wants is for Eddie to notice her and acknowledge her love for him. Through all of Eddie’s rough times in life, Panama is always by his side, encouraging and keeping Eddie company. After the stock market crash, Eddie and Panama stay together and are still close friends. Even when Eddie knows that Jean is married, he still has feelings for her and doesn't realize that Panama is right in front of him and truly cares about him. Panama never gets to tell Eddie how she really feels about him because he dies.
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Period 3
Harpreet Mahi
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Eddie Bartlett is a good man that wants to live a decent life after the war. While being with some of the soldiers in the war, he says that he wants to work in the garage he used to work in before the war. An ideal life for him would be where he saves enough money to buy his own garage and be around cars for the rest of his life. Eddie wants to have a business of his own so that he can be his own boss and that he could make sure he will be secure in his old age. At least for some time, Eddie does reach his goal, just not how he had planned. After coming back to the states, Eddie thought that he would have been welcomed back and there would have been his old job ready for him. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It seemed that people had moved on from their life during the war. Instead, Eddie had to start driving his friend’s cab to make money. After he was arrested for delivering illegal alcohol to a woman named Panama, a different side to Eddie seems to become more dominant. He joins Panama and quickly becomes a powerful bootlegger. He is the man in charge of their gang, and he soon basically rules over the city. I believe that Eddie always was the person that wanted to be in control. He was a good leader and a good friend that trusted the people around him. He becomes a very rich man, but still is always looking to expand. Along with trying to expand his alcohol empire, he also continues to buy thousands of taxis. I think that the character of Eddie Bartlett did have to face some moral dilemmas, although he did not show it. Before he became a bootlegger, he seemed like a good man that wanted to live an honest life. However, after realizing that the America is not really doing anything to help the war veterans once they are back, Eddie decides to take things into his own hands. It is possible that Eddie is not that guilty about selling illegal alcohol because a system was already set up. The cops were not enforcing the laws either, which made it so that it was almost not wrong to bootleg. Also, Eddie was against killing people. He becomes angry at George when he kills the officer in the warehouse. I also believe that Eddie was investing in the taxis so that he has an escape route. I think that he did think that he would eventually leave the illegal empire, and live his life far from it.
Panama is a highly publicized flapper who simply enjoys drinking illegal alcohol, singing in speakeasies, and to have fun and enjoy life. Panama seemed to have everything in her life except one thing, a man to love. When she met Eddie, she immediately felt some connection with him. As the story moves on, it becomes more obvious that Panama has feelings for Eddie, but doesn’t make a move. Eddie is the only thing that Panama wants in her life right now, but she doesn’t express her feelings to him. Fortunately she and Eddie are close throughout the movie. Panama is always helping Eddie when he needs help. She is always there for him and Eddie doesn’t seem to realize that. Panama is infatuated with Eddie, but Eddie is in love with Jean. Panama tells him that Jean doesn’t love him, but he doesn’t listen. In the end, Jean marries Eddie’s lawyers, and Eddie and Panama end up together and closer than ever. Even though the two have other each other at the end, Panama still doesn’t reveal her true affections for him. She knows that he’s still in love with Jean and may be afraid of telling him how she truly feels because she might get hurt. But in the end, Eddie dies and she’s never able to tell him how much she loves him.
ReplyDeleteRochella Gutierrez
Period 4
Eddie Bartlett is a swell man that only wants a better life after his time spent in war. Ideally, he would return to his job in a garage, save up money, and start a business that would secure the future of him and a girl that had written to him. Everything has changed and people have moved on by the time he gets back. His job isn't returned to him and the girl turns out to really be just a girl. Because nobody was doing anything to help him, a returning war veteran who wanted to move past the war, he had to find an alternative way of reaching his goals. Eddie began driving a cab to make money but he gets arrested when he unknowingly delivers prohibited alcohol to a woman named Panama. In return for taking the fall, Eddie is given a chance to make money in an illegal, yet simpler way. Soon, he is a rich bootlegger, making his own alcohol and selling it as if it were from overseas. Eddie seems to change dramatically, going from an honest man to a man of control and command. By the end of the movie, he seems to have lost his values, killing men just because they seemed to deserve it, or because it was necessary. Moral dilemmas that Eddie Bartlett faces are whether he should feel guilt and betrayal towards the many people he was scamming and towards the nation he previously served with honor.
ReplyDeleteEddie Bartlett was just a simple man returning from the war who wanted his old life back. When he got back the world had changed a lot and he had to learn to adapt to the new society. He just wanted to come back to his old job and live his life the way he used to. Sadly he learned that it just wasn't going to happen. He starts off as a taxi driver and gets sucked in to selling alcohol. He starts getting addicted to the money he was earning and lost sight of what mattered. Going into this job had its price and Eddie learned that the hard way when his friend was killed. Eddie then started losing his reign when the stock market crashed and he ended up back at the bottom. Then after reaching the bottom he lost his life trying to protect the girl he loved so she could live a happy life with her family.
ReplyDeleteSamuel Helton
Period 3
During the war, Eddie Bartlett dreamed of working with cars and having his own business in the garage. When the war was over, Eddie asked his boss for his old job back in the car shop and was denied. He was looking to find many different ways to earn money. After being introduced into the bootlegging business, he committed himself into selling liquor due to the high demands of alcohol during that time. Bootlegging is not exactly what Eddie Bartlett wanted in the first place, but it was the only and easy way to make a living. Eddie achieved his goal in a way that he ran his own business. Also, bootlegging gave him the power and control of his life by being able to buy his needs. Eddie found himself in conflict between the business and Jean. She wanted Eddie to quit and change, but Eddie couldn't do it as his business grew rapidly.
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One of the main protagonists in the film, The Roaring Twenties, is Eddie Bartlett, an individual who returned to his homeland longing for a better and normal lifestyle after serving in World War I. Although he hoped to still maintain the job he possessed in the past, he eventually realizes that someone has taken his position at the car shop. During this time period, the 18th Amendment was in effect and prohibited any use of alcohol. Surprisingly, he manages to find a new job as a boot-legger, a person who illegally sells alcohol, in order to become wealthy. His alcohol-selling business soon became widespread and prevalent throughout the area, and he soon became prosperous and lavish. As time passes on, he is eventually associated with an individual named Hally to work together in the bootlegging business. However, during this time period, the stock market crash as well as an inadequate business deal with both Eddie and Hally causes their bootlegging business to crumble and fall apart; unfortunately, Eddie has to begin a cab business once again. Throughout his life, Eddie has changed his own personal perspective. In the past, he was an truthful and righteous man; however, everything changed when he came back from war. Ironically, he suddenly lost his moral values by illegally selling alcohol to make some cash and become wealthy, disobeying the laws of the country he once served. In a sense, Eddie isn’t the same individual he was in the past, portraying that change, whether positive or negative, is always inevitable. In his case, he has suffered change causes him to lose his values and forget his morals.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie The Roaring Twenties, Panama Smith just wanted someone to be with since she lost someone important to her before. She thought that Eddie could replace it. When she first meets Eddie, they were caught bootlegging. Instead of just leaving Eddie alone, she actually gets the money to bail him out because she felt close to him. She doesn’t reach her goal in the end unfortunately even though she has done so much. She still sticks with Eddie even though she knows that Eddie is in love with someone else. She tries to keep everything in order. She doesn’t want to anger Eddie and keep him close.
ReplyDeleteNicole Alfonso
Period 3
Eddie Barlett wants to live a normal, happy lifestyle after World War I; however, his old job was taken. After meeting Panama Smith, Eddie gets into the bootlegging business and gains lots of money and power. When he gains more power over time, Barlett also gains a big ego and acts like an emperor of the town. During the mid-twenties, Eddie Barlett has the life of any other rich man: he's a boss, and he's a happy man. Shortly after achieving a happy lifestyle, Eddie is forced into debt as a result of the Great Depression. After Eddie sells his taxi cab company, his social status takes a huge drop, and his lifestyle becomes a poor, drunk lifestyle. Towards the end of the movie, he mourns the fact that his wealthy lifestyle can no longer be reached.
ReplyDeleteDan To
Period 3
When Eddie Bartlett came back from the war, he had a difficult time finding a job. At first he just wanted to get his old job back, but he saw that times were hard. Eddie was so desperate that he went into the business of making money easily, but illegally. Once Eddie starts to earn a larger income he becomes more ambitious. What Eddie mostly wants seems to be Jean and tries to win her heart by buying her things. The goal the Eddie does achieve at the begining of the movie is getting a lot of money. Eddie achieves one of his goals by becoming a bootlegger. The other goal the he tries to achieve is wining Jean's heart, and tries to by telling her that he will get out if that bad business he's in. Throughout the movie Eddie starts to have moral dilemmas when he becomes a bootlegger. Some of the dilemmas he goes through are killing people that are against him and stealing from other people. Although, Eddie might fell bad or egret what he is doing, he still does it to gain control and money.
ReplyDeleteMariela Alvarez
Period 4
Jean Sherman, a lively and bubbly girl, has dreams of becoming a successful singer. Although when Eddie Bartlett and her first met, he was not too impressed. Years later, while collecting money at a nightclub, Eddie noticed Jean, now that she has “filled out nicely”. This made Eddie falls in love with her, prompting him to help her achieve her dreams of becoming a singer. Once Jean started singing at Eddie’s nightclub, she became quite popular amongst the audience; the sign outside the club says “featuring Jean Sherman”. However, Jean is not actually in love with Eddie, but with his lawyer, Lloyd. This made her feel quite guilty because Eddie had done everything to help her, even buying expensive engagement rings. In the end, Lloyd and her made the decision to quit and leave altogether, resulting in an angry and heartbroken Eddie.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, Jean is a young girl that loves to sing. She want to sing in front of people and have them cheer for her. She also have a dream to be with a soldier. She tried accomplishing the two dream through Eddie. He helped her accomplish by getting Panama to let her sing and since he’s a former soldier, that goal was reach. Jean face reaching her goal as a famous singer and getting all that she wants or being with her true love. Even though in the end, she picked true love, she was happy about it.
ReplyDeleteEddie Bartlett wants to makes a living off bootlegging, but is willing to give it all up in order to win Jean Sherman's heart. In order for Eddie to win Jean's heart he tries to buy her a lot of luxuries such as a ring, and tickets to go watch a football game with him. Eddie is also willing to change his life in order to gain her affection because he would stop bootlegging, and watch a football game with her even though he doesn't like football. All of this shows Eddie's love for Jean, and what he would do in order to win her heart. Sadly, Eddie is unable to win Jean's heart because their personalities don't fit with each other. In fact, Jean Sherman fell in love with Lloyd Hart right when she saw him. Eddie faces the dilemma of living his bootlegging life and wanting to live with Jean Sherman. Jean isn't interested in a man who is into all the dirt Eddie is in. She is a very clean woman who wants a man like Lloyd Hart. Eddie tries to make a compromise with Jean, but unfortunately it doesn't work out in the end.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the movie, Eddie Bartlett's main goal was trying to get the love of his life Jean Sherman to love him back while he's running a gangster/bootlegging empire. Eddie uses his wealth, power, and connections to try to make Jean Sherman fall in love with him. In the end, Eddie doesn't manage to win over Jean Sherman's heart because she falls for the young lawyer Lloyd Hart who happens to be a WWI veteran just like Eddie. What makes matters worse is that after a decade of successful bootlegging by Eddie and his gang, the stock market crashes in 1929 and the Great Depression occurs, causing Eddie to lose all his wealth and power. Some moral dilemmas that Eddie face include that because he is the leader of a "gang", violence and death occur, which Eddie is morally against, which might have happened due to him already seeing enough during the first World War. Another dilemma is that towards the end of the movie Eddie has to decide whether to protect Lloyd from George or to let George take him out because he knows too much. In the end, Eddie tried to do the right thing, but it ends up with his and George's death, although he did protect Lloyd's. Eddie Bartlett lived a tough life that in unfortunately didn't lead to a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteChris Vu
Period 4
Panama Smith is a person who wants to live life to the fullest. She wants to live as if there were no tomorrow. She drinks, runs speakeasies, and much more. She was doing stuff that was illegal back in that time period. To some degree it gave her “thrills'. She loved to do things that were punishable by law, it gave her excitement and joy that she was missing from her life. To do this, she gets people to sell and distribute her liquor, singers, dancers and much more to throw speakeasies. She also likes to be around with people of her same type, like Eddie. She is very successful when it comes to throwing speakeasies. Yet even after all the money and joy from all that she does she still feels lie there is a void deep inside her. She really doesn't know what to do with herself. She has money, liquor, and the list keeps going on. Yet she has one thing that is missing from her life. She is longing for somebody to love her. She tells Eddie how Jean is not her type of girl, that she is his kind of girl. Panama really wanted to be with Eddie, yet she was never loved by Eddie, not even when Jean left Eddie. She tried to accomplish her goals by making people do her dirty work, pay money to people, etc. She was like a puppet master. Yet the one thing that she had troubles with was love. Love was something she wanted so badly, for somebody to say “I love you”. Yet in the end she will find out that her “crush” (Eddie) will not fall in love with her and is left at the end at the movie without a lover. Panama never told Eddie that she loved him, and Eddie died without knowing how much Panama loved him, a tragic ending for both characters.
ReplyDeleteAfter World War I, Eddie Bartlett wants to continue living his life prior to the war. Unfortunately, his old position at a car shop is taken by someone else. In addition, Eddie is also in search of somebody to love. During the war, he meets Jean, a high school student, but turns her down because of her young age. In order for Eddie to replace his old car shop job, he gets into boot-legging alcohol and he starts to run speakeasies. Eddie also meets Jean again but she is now grown up. Eddie ends up pursuing her and even helps her with her music career. Eddie's moral dilemma in the end was whether he should help his friend Lloyd or not because his other friend George is going to kill him. At first, Eddie did not want to get involved. Eventually, Jean convinces Eddie to convince George not to kill Lloyd. In the end, Eddie ends up killing George in order to prevent him from killing Lloyd.
ReplyDeletePanama Smith is a club hostess who was always organizing events and upcoming singers for the club she worked for. Ever since shes known Eddie she has loved him. All she ever wanted was for Eddie to love her back.She tries to win Eddies love by doing favors for him like bringing the girl he liked into the singing business and always listening to what ever he wants her to do. But in the end she never got to be with him. She faces the fact that he was too focused on someone else that she was never seen as a love interest and also how caught up in the moonshining business he was.
ReplyDeleteEddie Bartlett plays an individual who wants to return back to his old job at the car shop after being in World War 1 but due to his replacement, Eddie begins to search for a new job where he started to get involved into boot-legging alcohol and other illegal things. Soon Eddie became the head of the crew, the big shot in town. Throughout the movie, Eddie was madly in love with Jean, who was secretly in love with someone else. But after realizing that the girl he is so crazy in love with loves someone else, Eddie had to let her go. I think that even though Eddie does bad things, he is indeed a very good guy. Somewhat like "Bad decisions, good intentions." Even after all the things Jean did to him, at the end of the movie, he risked his life saving Jean and her family's lives.
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ReplyDeleteThe young and ambitious, Jean Shearman, is a talented girl that wants to pursue her dreams of entertaining by singing and dancing. Along with her dreams of becoming a star, she also wants to find love, or her “dream soldier.” Jean is a girl that gets involved with many organizations to help her demonstrate her singing and dancing abilities. Eddie Bartlett helps Jean with getting a part time job where she can sing and dance. In a sense she has reached her goals, but instead of falling in love with Eddie as he expects, she finds her true love through this new job. A moral dilemma that Jean faces is whether or not to tell her pursuer, Eddie, that she never really loved him. Eddie has provided her with everything that she wants, but she chose Lloyd as her lover; and she let Eddie find out about it through Panama, leaving him heartbroken.
DeleteMercedez Lam
Period 4
Watching ones close friends go down a path that they already know the result to is a painful thing to watch, which is why most people try there best to prevent the end result from happening. This would be the case with Panama Smith where she constantly tries throughout the movie to convince her very close friend, Eddie, that what he is doing and feeling with Jean Sherman isn't a good idea.
ReplyDeletePanama is a character that calls it as she sees it and wants Eddie to be happy not miserable which is what he would become if he kept on with the path he was going down by convincing himself that Jean Sherman is in love with him. Throughout the movie, Panama does her best to get Eddie to see that Jean is no good for him and him to her. She goes about this by confronting Eddie about the situation many times in order to get through to him, but it does no good due to the fact that Eddie is a very stubborn person. Although Panama has made many attempts to show Eddie that Jean doesn't love him, she still tries because she really cares about Eddie. In the end though she fails to accomplish her goal and he goes down the path that she was afraid of.
Some dilemmas that Panama faces while trying to achieve this goal is that not only does Jean not love Eddie but she is in love with someone else that happens to be one of Eddies friend, Lloyd. Instead of telling him that Jean is in love with Lloyd she gives him advice that girls like Jean fall for guys like Lloyd. When all is at its absolute worst she finally finds it in her to tell him straight up about the feelings Jean doesn't have towards him, but Lloyd. In this way, Panama cared deeply about Eddie and that is why she tried to keep him from getting hurt, but in the end he died for who he loved, Jean.
Amber Pena
Period 4
Panama Smith was a significant person during Eddie Bartlett's life. She was the person who bailed him out of jail, and was there for him through all of his struggles. Ever since she met Eddie, all she wanted was him. She attempted to win his love by being there for him through everything. She was the only one who was still there for him when he hit rock bottom and she was there for him in the beginning as well. Even when she knew Eddie was in love with Jean, she was still there for him. The main problem she faces when trying to win Eddie's heart is Jean. Panama faces the problem of having to be the bigger person and has to chase after the guy she wants, even though the guy she wants is busy chasing someone else. Panama also faces the moral issue of if she should tell Eddie that Jean doesn't love him. The first time she doesn't, but the second time she finally overcomes her hesitance and tells Eddie the truth. Even though Eddie is still bitter about Jean, Panama is still there for Eddie. Through all these troubles she is always there for Eddie, but never finds a way to make him feel the same about her. After the untimely death of Eddie, her chances at love with Eddie are finally crushed.
ReplyDeleteDeion Lagman
Period 4
In the movie, one of the leading ladies, Jean Sherman, is a girl who's dream at first was to get into the show business by singing. She first appears as a high school girl when Eddie Bartlett, the main character, decides to meet her after coming back from war, he is, although, not impressed to find out that she is still in school. Jean reappears after a time skip where she is seen rehearsing a dance at a night club that Eddie went to to collect money. Her dream of singing in front of others is achieved when Eddie hooks her up at his night club. When Jean first meets Lloyd Hart, Eddie's lawyer and friend, she falls in love with her at first sight, but causes conflict because Eddie is in love her Jean at the same time. Jean's second goal is to just be with Lloyd and tell Eddie that she isn't in love with her, which is extremely difficult for her and because she already feels bad that she has been seeing Lloyd behind Eddie's back. Jean is finally able to be Lloyd after Panama Smith, Eddie's bar friend, finally tells him that Jean loves Lloyd, accomplishing the goal of being with him. Jean appears again after a time skip after the stock market crash where she is married to Lloyd and have a son, and her new goal is to convince Eddie to persuade George Hally, a friend of Eddie and Lloyd, not to kill Lloyd. This goal is later accomplished when Eddie kills George, but with the catch of Eddie's life. Jean Sherman's three goals are all accomplished in the movie and her morals are eventually straightened by the end of the movie.
ReplyDeleteBrianne Dela Cruz
Period 3
Eddie Bartlett is a person who serves in World War I. After the war, he tries to get his life back together and falls in love with Jean, a high school girl whom he rejects during the war. As he's courting Jean, he is also running a bootlegging empire. Unfortunately, Eddie learns from Panama, a lady who may or may not secretly love him, that Jean already has fallen in love with a man by the name of Lloyd, a person Eddie went to war with. Sad enough as it is, after Eddie successfully bootlegs for a good decade or so, the stock market crashes and he loses everything else. Depressed by these mishaps, Eddie drowns himself in alcohol and becomes a cab driver, which is his prior job before leaving for the war. Coincidentally, Jean and Eddie cross paths again as Jean takes a cab, which Eddie is driving. Eddie learns that George, another person he goes to war with and bootlegs with, is planning to kill Lloyd, Jean's husband, because he knows too much and lets Jean know after she begged him to go talk George out of doing so. Still in love with her, Eddie talks to George, which resulted in gun-shooting causing both of their deaths. Ultimately, Eddie died because of love.
ReplyDeleteYeda Marie Donato
Period 4
Jean Sherman, the female lead in the film, starts out as an ordinary teenage girl who fantasies of being a famous singer. As a high school student, she is visited by World War I veteran, Eddie Bartlett. Upon their first meeting, Eddie is not fond of Jean’s age, and they do not meet again until three years later at nightclub. During their second meeting, Jean is a woman which sparks Bartlett’s love interest in her. Since Jean wanted to be a singer, Bartlett, who is now a rich bootlegger the power of money, uses the power of money to hold onto her. He wants the best of the best for his girl. For instance, Bartlett buys Jean luxurious clothing, pays for her singing lessons, and lands her a job at a nightclub through bribery. Bartlett makes Jean into the star she needs to be in order to achieve her dream. As time passes by, Jean reaches fame thanks to Bartlett but the problem in this relationship is Jean does not have reciprocal feelings towards Bartlett; throughout everything she begins an affair with Bartlett’s lawyer, Lloyd. Instead of telling Bartlett the truth of her feelings, Jean chooses to be selfish and takes advantage of his kindness for the sake of fulfilling her life’s dream. Jean eventually tells him that she is in love with Lloyd and they get married as well as have a child. In the end, she gets what she wants: Lloyd and her careers. As for Bartlett, he is left with a broken heart.
ReplyDeleteLloyd Hart was a young soldier during the war who was very honest. During he told his buddies, Eddie and George that he wanted to become a lawyer after the war. Afterwards, Eddie and Lloyd cross paths in New York where Lloyd worked for Eddie as his lawyer and handles all of Eddie's documents. While working for Eddie, Lloyd finds Jean, who is employed at the nightclub Eddie's friend Panama owns and deeply falls in love with her. Lloyd's goal changes after he watches Jean for the first time; his life goal is to be with Jean. In order to be with Jean, Lloyd has to meet with Jean in secret without Eddie knowing. After awhile, Lloyd quits his job working for Eddie because he gets tired of his relationship being secret from his boss. Later, Eddie discovers about the couple and Lloyd achieves his goal to be with Jean without their relationship being a secret. The biggest problem of this goal is that Eddie, Lloyd's boss is also in love with Jean. To get around this obstacle, Lloyd tells Jean to tell Eddie the truth about them, but Eddie soon discovers about their relationship.
ReplyDeleteLloyd was an assistant of Eddie’s however wasn't severely dedicated to his job. After the war many soldiers lost their workplace and were in desperate needs of money to survive in the “future” world they once left. Lloyd was the type who was uncertain of his actions. Yes, he need a job and money but he thought more thoroughly upon it. Did he actually want this kind of job? Or does he just want to live a normal life, not filled with gang violence and bootlegging? Lloyd probably thought he had no other choice. Since him and Eddie were comrades in the war, he probably thought that he should help Eddie out in his desperate times, knowing it’ll benefit himself also. But you could tell that in the movie his main goal was just to settle down, perhaps have a family. Lloyd achieves this goal eventually, but struggles to obtain it in the beginning since the woman he fell for was the girlfriend of his own boss, Eddie Barlett. Lloyd obtains the love of Eddies girlfriend, Jean, just by simply having more in common with her, seeming to understand her more. Because of this, the two ended up together, and Lloyd finally realized that his gang work wasn't worth it and could cause permanent consequences if he stayed any longer.
ReplyDeleteErika Williams
Period 3
My character, Eddie Bartlett, wanted to just achieve the American dream and be successful through hard work and determination. During the war, when he spoke with his fellow soldiers he said all he wanted was to own a garage after the shop. Even though it’s a hard life to own a garage and fix cars, it’s an honest job. He didn’t want to have all the world’s riches. Eddie Bartlett wanted to live a peaceful life with a steady income. But after the war, Eddie couldn’t find a job back in New York. In order to live, Eddie got his income by selling alcohol.
ReplyDeleteAlcohol was in high demand at the time because of its illegal status. Eddie soon became a bootlegger and went into business with Panama. Eddie was skeptical about becoming a bootlegger at first. However, the payout was too enticing for anyone to say no. It provided Eddie with money after he was struggling finding work after the First World War.
Even though Eddie got to live a lavish life with his smuggling income, he didn’t achieve what he wanted out of life. After prohibition ended, Eddie lost all the money he had earned in the stock market. Eddie wanted to live a quiet and peaceful life. But in order to survive, he resorted to selling alcohol. Once he lost all of his money, he became obsessed with living the lavish lifestyle once again. He becomes scornful of those who have moved on from the roaring twenties. He’s stuck reminiscing on times when he had it all set.
My character faces the moral issue of whether or not he should accept the job of bootlegging. When he returned to the U.S. after the war, he couldn’t find a job. He was a man of high moral character before he became a bootlegger. It’s evidently shown in the movie the way he looks out for Lloyd. When Lloyd first admits he’s scared during the war, Eddie defends him from the other soldier in the hole. When Eddie got offered the job, he was just coming out of jail and had no income. It’s wrong, but he had to live a life of crime in order to live.
At first Eddie just wanted to stay afloat. He got back from the war and only wanted to work at a car garage. An honest man who needed to make a dollar. Unfortunately that job was taken and found a job being a taxi driver. He just wanted a career. After having bad luck with the taxi business he gets into the bootlegging business. Around this time Eddie changes and his goals change from being an honest worker to a gangster who wanted to be on top. He achieves this goal by being very aggressive, stealing, taking risks, and not letting anyone walk over him. The only moral dilemma i think Eddie faced was the fact that Jean was never comfortable with his greed and reputation. Eddie wanted to win Jeans heart and it probably was a battle for him to choose.
ReplyDelete1. What does your character want out of life?
ReplyDelete2. How does your character go about achieving what he or she wants? Does he or she reach his or her goals?
3. What moral dilemmas does your character face?
I chose the character Eddie. At first, Eddie gets back from the war and wanted to own a car garage. He was real desperate for money and needed a job. He tries out taxi driving but that doesn't work out. He find out about bootlegging and decides to stick with it. He wanted to run his own bootlegging business and he the head of everything, and wanted everything to go his way. He thought that this would be the easy way, by getting in trouble and stealing. That's how his life changes after the war. His moral dilemma were him losing respect and trust from people, losing the girl he loves with a guy he works with, and also losing respect for himself.
My Character, Jean Sherman, wants two things out of life; success and happiness. I would say that this is the main desire of most human beings in the world. Jean goes about achieving her goals by working hard. She works hard to be successful and in the end she is. She achieves her acting and singing goals and has a nice family. Although, she also works hard to be happy and in my opinion, she does not reach that goal by the end of the movie. She strives so hard to be happy and fall in love with the right one, but her dilemma in life is the options she has. She can be with Eddie, who is exciting and her first true love, or she can be with Lloyd, who is ideal and practical. Eddies exciting lifestyle intrigues Jean at first, but she becomes tired of all the excitement. She decides to be with Lloyd who leads a more normal lifestyle. She breaks Eddies heart and discovers once he dies that he is her one true love.
ReplyDeleteAsia Cruz
Period 4
Eddie was a regular guy who wanted to earn an honest living after coming back from war. Eddie was a good guy and helped his fellow soldiers during the war. Once he came back from the war he just wanted to live a simple life and run a garage and work on cars. But Eddie soon realized that he couldn’t open a garage, and was forced to turn to bootlegging to support himself. Bootlegging was hard to resist because of the fact it was paying so much. The reason it was paying a lot was because so many people were buying alcohol illegally at the time, because of the prohibition. Regardless Eddie was able to go from poor to rich in a short matter of time. After the Roaring Twenties ended Eddie wasn’t living the lavish life he used to live, even though he still yearned for it. In that case, it made Eddie a bitter person and he started to envy people that were still rich. He was still stuck in the past, his morale issue was that he turned to a life of crime to support his well-being but sadly his lavish lifestyle didn’t last as long as he had wished.
ReplyDeleteLloyd Hart is a soldier in the war who meets George and Eddie in the beginning of the movie. When they get to know each other, it can be inferred that he is a very honest person. He reveals that he plans to have a career as a lawyer after the war is over, which he is very eager about. The war soon ends and in time, Lloyd and Eddie run into each other. They speak about business and Lloyd is already a successful lawyer. Eddie fills Lloyd in on his bootlegging business and makes Lloyd his lawyer. Lloyd is now Eddie’s employee, a friend, and someone who Eddie should rely on. No doubt, Eddie’s business is successful for some time, and even includes Jean Sherman, an upcoming star who sings and dances for Eddie’s club. When Lloyd and Jean meet, there is instantly an attraction. They start seeing each other behind Eddie’s back. Eddie is oblivious that Jean is not in love with him, but is in love with Lloyd instead. Eddie still dedicates his life to impress Jean and continues to shower her with materialistic gifts, but Jean doesn’t comply. Lloyd is tired of hiding his relationship with Jean and tells her to tell Eddie. Lloyd doesn’t like to lie to his boss, and even quits as Eddie’s lawyer. After an encounter where Eddie punches Lloyd, Eddie steps away and unwillingly allows them to be together. Soon enough, Lloyd and Jean get married and have a child together. Lloyd is still a lawyer, but a lawyer who carries a lot of weight from the past on his shoulders.
ReplyDelete1. What does your character want out of life?
ReplyDeleteI would say that Edie wants an honest living, a place to call home a wife, friends to hang around with and respect from other people because he is a war veteran that went through a tough time trying to defend his country.
2. How does your character go about achieving what he or she wants? Does he or she reach his or her goals?
Eddie earns more money than he thought he would when coming back from the war. At first, he doesn't earn that much because he's a taxi driver but through bootlegging he reaches his goal of making it big in the city.I wouldn't say that Eddie reached all of his goals necessarily. Eddie Didn't marry the girl of his dreams, or really settle down.
3. What moral dilemmas does your character face?
Eddie sees both sides of himself. There is a side of him that just wants to go away, relax, live peacefully, and settle down with a wife, and there is a side that want's to stay in the limelight, be the boss, and make lots of money. Eddie faces that fact that he can't have both of these personalities if he wants to be with the girl he loves. He sticks with the limelight. Because of this, the girl he loves (Jean) starts to talk to one of Eddies friends (Loyd).Loyd and Jean eventually hook up, get married, and have a son. Eddie felt played by Jean so he began to keep hatred inside for both Loyd and Jean. Jean eventually comes back and asks Eddie for help because Loyd might be killed. Eddie has to make a choice of helping the girl that he loved and betrayed him or let his old friend that he now dislikes, die. He decides to help Jean and Loyd.