Class Discussion pg.186

I believe this scene is important because the readers, as well as Swenson, are finally getting to see Angela’s true color.  Swenson feel as if Angela was only using you him for her own personal gain. Now that I’ve  read this I actually feel this way too. The way she was friendly and cozy without swenson in the earlier chapters was just a ploy. She was attempting to make herself seem vulnerable and like a desperate writer who can’t seem to get by. Ultimately, Swenson feel into her trap. Now in this scene her persona has changed. She’s approaching Swenson like he’s someone of her age group,  talking to him disrespectfully and she’s also becoming aggressively  possessive. She was literally jumping down Swenson’s throat for not calling her to talk about her writing. Now that they’ve had sex she feels like as if he owns her something in return.

In Class Reading Responce

Swenson and Angela are having a conversation. Angela is upset because Swenson did not call her. The conversation escalates and Angela asks Swenson to show his editor some of her work. Swenson wonders if Angela has any ulterior motives for asking this of him. He’s worried she might be using him for her own personal gain. This is important to the novel because Swenson thought that Angela actually liked him which is one of reasons why he slept with her. So if she was just using him this whole time he just risked it all for a lie.

Class discussion

It’s really interesting how Angela seems to ignore the gestures Swanson is making to her. As we were reading along I remembered the scene where Angelas mother told Swanson about the phone calls she didn’t answer from boy & at that moment we were just reading about the same thing I had thought about LOL. In my opinion I think Angela is only using Swanson to publish her work but she is doing a great job at still making him think that she’s into him once she starts asking why didnt he call her. It kinda made her look needy for him when in reality she was mad that he did not call so she wouldn’t answer the phone.

Pg 185( class discussion)

i believe that this scene is extremely important in the novel because it comes to show what Angela’s true intentions are. I dont think that she ever liked or had a crush on Swensen. She knew that she could manipulate him into thinking this, though. In this scene we learn that what Angela really wants is for the professor to show a couple of pages of her novel to Len and see if she could get her own work published. This scene is also important because Swensen starts to see what her intentions were and is most likely wishing that he disnt risk his life and marriage to be with a student who was just teying to get ahead & let him have sex with her to get ahead.

Blue Angel Response

This scene is where Swenson questions the ends that Angela is chasing, whether she is intimately interested in him or if she just wants to use him, or both. Swenson also speaks about the entirety of his relationship and how someone would react to it. He compares it to that of a criminal, which foreshadows that he might be interrogated or something in the future. Furthermore, Swenson even expresses disgust and guilt as he speaks of it, which shows his work ethic was cometely incorrect in the way he’s maintained himself. If he did not feel strongly towards Angela, he would not have to be reluctant and careful in how he spoke to Magda. I believe that he’s realized that he’s being baited by Angela but it’s too late as she already has Swenson wrapped around her finger. He also recalls what her mother said, comparing him to the guys she would fawn over and then completely ignore.

Blue angel

This scene in the book is placed to foreshadow what’s going to happen next when he sees his editor. When he goes to New York, Len seems very different to Swenson from his mannerisms down to his thought process. When they sit down to talk bout the novel Lenn says he doesn’t care bout the girl or the novel , but instead encourages Swesons to go have sex with Angela and have a whole line of questioning surrounding that topic. I find this interesting because of the conflict between how these two think and the guilt Swenson has for the obsession of a student. Even when Lenn tells him it’s ok and he’s surprised he “hasn’t” had sex with her , Swenson doesn’t build the courage to confess what he’s been doing .

Class discussion page 185-190

I believe that Angela knew from the beginning exactly what she was doing. She knew she had potential and wanted to get her work out there at any cost. Unfortunately, Swenson didn’t see this coming from her and he gave in to temptation. Swenson somewhat falls in love with Angela and is trying to talk about the time they had sex but Angela only cares about the pages she has given to him and that if he read them and edited them. This hurts Swenson because he thought he had something special going on. This also make him think if Angela was just using him from the beginning just for his profession connections with Len.