Rear Window

Rear Window is about a newspaper camera man named Mr. Jeffries who is confined to a wheelchair because he broke his leg on the job. Having nothing better to do, he people watches his neighbors in the adjacent apartment building.Each person represents not only a piece of Mr.Jeffries personality but he personality of all people.

Firstly Mr. Jeffries obviously represents curiosity. He achieves this by being the most nosy about Lars Thorwald, I will get to him later. L.B. Jeffries makes an accusation that Lars killed his wife. He tries to figure out how, when and why Lars would resort to murdering wife.

Stella, L.B.'s nurse and Doyle, L.B.'s old Army buddy turned police chief represent logic as well as the conscious and subconscious. Constantly questioning Mr.Jeffries accusations assuming that what he thinks he is seeing and what he is seeing are two vastly different things. Doyle turns out to be the hardest of the two to convince that Lars killed his wife.

Lisa, L.B.'s boyfriend represents love. She represents love because often she tries to love L.B. when his attention is elsewhere, as well she also tries extremely hard to conform to the "kind of girl" L.B. wants. He often tells her that he travels to places and does things that she could never want to travel to or participate in because she is into fashion.

The pianist that L.B. watches represents success and hardwork because he works hard day making songs. He keeps having parties at night where people come to celebrate and enjoy. The lonley woman represents Lisa because just like Lisa she is desperate for love. Interestingly enough L.B. seems more concerned for the lonley woman to find love than to treat Lisa with love. At the end of the story when Lisa and L.B. have solidified their relationship post-murder investigation the lonley girl and the pianist seem to have hit it off fairly well.

The dancer who dances in her underwear represents carelessness. Obviously dancing in your underwear in your appartment without the blinds closed when you have floor-to-ceiling windows is pretty careless. Similar to how careless some of the planning was in L.B.'s investigation of the murder of Mrs.Thorwald. For instance having Lisa explore the Thorwald home while he was out without thinking or planning when he might return or how he would signal for her to leave.

The mixed married couples represent reality, because contradictory to the life Mr. and Mrs. Thorwald seemed to have had, reality is that not all seemingly loving marriges are really loving at all. Fighting and disagreements as well as bickering over petty things is not only common but natural and heathy in any relationship. Maybe the fact that that was never seen led to the murder of Mrs. Thorwald.

The little dog who Mr.Thorwald is suspected of killing represents instinct. This is so because the dog smelled the body of Mrs.Thorwald in the flower bed and got curious and started digging up the body. Mr.Thorwald, not ready to have his secret exposed did the onlything he could think of, kill the dog. Curiously enough though just as the dog was killed for following its instincts, Mr.Jeffries broke his other leg falling out of the window Mr.Thorwald threw him out of when Mr.Thorwald realized that L.B. was the one challenging him and watching him.

To conclude, this is the way the characters were representative in the movie Rear Window.