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This posting helps to create a character, real or imagined, with a distinct manner of behaving or style of talking. It places this character in a situation where he or she plays a public role (the public persona shown to others) and contrasts it with the character's private persona (the real character when no one is watching).

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I have included several brainstorming ideas to guide you through the formation of your character and the completion of your assignment:

a. Character ideas/public persona: Mariana is a poised, attractive, competent lawyer in the Manhattan area. She has only lost one case during her nine-year tenure. In addition to professional competency, she rarely has a free social evening. She is sought after by all the local businessmen; she also socializes at cocktail hours, clubs, gallery openings, and lavish dinners with some of the most successful and popular women in her area. In short, she is glamorous, professionally driven, popular, and intelligent. She exudes confidence on the outside.

Private Persona: However, Mariana suffers from low self esteem and poor body image. As a result, she resorts to eating disorder behaviors when alone in her apartment. She takes laxatives, exercises compulsively, and binges and purges to maintain her waif-like appearance; her behaviors are extremely hazardous and self destructive.

Public/private role: Again, show her dual sides: confident at work and social venues, extraverted in relationships/friendships. However, show her depression, lack of self esteem, anxiety, and self destruction as she suffers privately from an eating disorder.

Point of view: Using first person point of view, write about her demise. Why does she exhibit such self destructive behaviors? Was it a problem from childhood? Is it because she is a perfectionist? Was there a trauma in her life? Try to account for the duality.

If you'd like to take the third-person viewpoint, you may want to write from her boyfriend's perspective after he discovers her abusive patterns.

Symbolism: In order to add a ...

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