Jessie Kidd
Ryan Davidson
English 102
June 14, 2007
Rough Draft
After reading and evaluating Billy Collins’s poem, “Embrace”, it was decided that it has the perfect theme and connections to the show, Nip/Tuck. In “Embrace”, Billy describes a parlor trick, “You wrap your arms around yourself and from the back it looks like someone is embracing you, but from the front you never looked so alone”. He also states after that, “You could be waiting for someone to fit you for a straightjacket.” After reviewing those words, the first concept that came to mind is perception and how people can view someone. A person can seem perfect on the outside but on the inside they are a mess.
The two main characters of the show, Christian Troy and Sean McNamara, are both two extremely successful plastic surgeons and that is what the people of Miami’s perception of them is. Their private lives, however, are a mess. The two of doctors share a practice in the Miami, south beach area and have been friends since before medical school. Christian perceives Sean as an uptight nerd who happens to be a wonderful father and husband. He is the talented one in their practice. Sean thinks that Christian has good looks, style, and no problem getting any woman he wants even if it’s just for a night. All the characters in the show relate to this poem.
In season one, the show starts of with Christian and Sean’s practice booming with business. They are doing numerous boob jobs and face lifts and Christian has been having sex with many of his patients. Sean starts to have a mid-life crisis. He feels like he was meant to be do something more than just make women look more beautiful. He wants to help people who really need surgery so he starts doing pro-bono work for people that need the surgery but don’t have the money. Christian is spending all kinds of money on new things for the office and Sean can’t stand the way Christian is acting. Julia, Sean’s wife, is also having problems with raising her two kids Matt and Annie. She feels alone and also that she never got to have her dream which was to become a doctor as well. She got pregnant before she could finish school and got married to Sean.
3 comments:
Your paper is really interesting. There are great connections between the show and the poem. Go a little deeper into the connections and things and it'll be great.
It really does seem to match up, its just you could expand upon what is really deprived about their private lives a little more. You say they have problems, but don't entirely go into them in any real detail within the second paragraph, and then mention Sean's problem in the third paragraph- its a little disorganized in its structure. Try bringing out the poem more too in connection with the text. You have to be splicing in Embrace because simply stating a point and assuming people will follow the connection is a dangerous (read confusing most of the time) game- especially in an analysis paper like this.
Honestly, I only read the first paragraph. Already, I can see that you have so many ideas that are ran together. There's not much of an introduction that transitions your ideas into what you actually want to talk about. However, with work, I see this is going to be a very interesting paper. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I'll try to read the rest later and if you want to talk about the paper, come see me.....Arlise.
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