The main character in this movie is a man by the name of Arthur Parker. Arthur is the perfect example of this; he is a very selfish character. He demonstrates how selfish he is right from the start of the movie. In the beginning he lies to Joan in order to take her inheritance. Arthur wants to buy a store and start a business selling records. He tells Joan that he went to the bank and the manager said, "Borrow what you like. A fellow like you is no risk, no risk at all." Joan questions him by asking. "Is that true Arthur?" He then makes her feel bad for not giving him the money by saying, "I said I don't want it. My wife's got some cash and she'll support me."

Since Joan questioned Arthur's honesty, it is obvious that he has deceived her in the past. As a matter of fact she was

It is apparent that Eileen's transformation to the 'dark side' is complete when she has an abortion and suggests to Arthur that he should stiff his wife in order to run away with her. This is the first time that she shows no regard for others. They then proceed to trash the record store that Arthur's wife paid for, and eventually have sex on the floor. Then they leave, knowing that they have ruined Joan by letting her old-age money go to waste. This means that Joan will end up with nothing, all because of Eileen.

right to question him, because he was lying to her. He didn't go to the bank until after their discussion, and when he did go he was turned down.

Arthur always knew what to say in order to 'play' Eileen. Even when he would slip up, he covered himself. For example when he gave away the fact that he was married, he quickly made up a story of his wife being tragically run over by a motorcycle. This then led him to 'tears' and Eileen was eager to comfort him. She exclaimed "Poor Arthur, I'll try to take the pain away!" as he so cleverly removed her shirt and had his way with her.

This all comes about when Eileen is homeless and she tries to go to Arthur for help. She then finds out that the address that Arthur provided her with was fake. By this time Eileen has learned from her experiences that she should have never trusted Arthur. This starts her out selling her body because she is homeless and without any money. So it is after all Arthur's fault that she ends up being a prostitute.

The character Eileen is the one who changes the most over the course of the film. This change in her is largely brought about due to Arthur's abuse and trickery. Her change though is far from good; she changes from one of the few decent people into a fairly bad individual. Her change for the worse comes about in order for her to exploit this principle of the wicked abusing the good.

Maybe this movie is a lot like real life after all; the good do get taken advantage of. The songs that live in the heads of all of the people in the world do tell them what to do. Maybe everyone's personal imaginary environment effects the real world because it causes him or her to interact with others differently. As long as we all have a happy world of our own full of songs to retreat to, the real world doesn't seem to matter as much.

This leaves the only person in this film that has a negative outcome, Arthur's original wi

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