Jane.....

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2005)

Jane to me is the most compelling character...I probably had more ideas on her after seeing the movie but I haven't seen it in about a month, so I'll try to go with my memory...At the beginning,Jane looks very young-like a rebellious child. The only person who seemed to notice her in the crowd was Dan. She did not really know what love was-she was searching. Before and after she was with Dan, she was a stripper. But while she was with him, she was not..she worked as a waitress. She had made the comment in the movie, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off". This is interesting because it almost implies when she is not a stripper, she lies. And when she is with Dan, she is not a stripper... Coincidence? Perhaps...Because later when she is a stripper again, she is truthful about her own identity...almost like her stripping of her clothes is symbolic of her also stripping herself of the lies. She is a different person with Dan, but perhaps it is easier that way, because she can experiment with love from a different perspective, so she could keep a cool head. It seems like she has done this with every relationship in her life, because in the book Dan wrote about her, she tells Larry that it is about her but leaves out the truth. When she fell in love with Dan, she became needy, something that wouldn't fly with him because he was so needy himself. He needed someone to take care of him, not someone who needed taken care of. This taught Jane a very important lesson-not to lose yourself in love. However, she needed Dan to do something to make her not regret leaving him, so she got him angry to the point he hit her, and it let her know that the love was a farce and allowed her to move on with her life. At the end of the movie, she appears to be so self confident and sure of herself and her feelings, so different than at th beginning, and this shows because instead of one man who is constantly seeking love noticing her, every man is almost mesmerized by her. She had completedher journey.