6/29/2023 0 Comments The cocktail party by ts eliot![]() ![]() She is hoping that Edward will divorce Lavinia so that she can marry him. Celia CoplestoneĬelia is a young woman who dreams of having a meaningful life, and wants to be an artist. She can control him, therefore, and keep him from leaving her, as her main psychological hangup is the suspicion that she is unlovable. Her psychiatrist helps her to realize that Edward is the perfect mate for her precisely because he is not really capable of loving anyone. Missing at the beginning of the play, Lavinia is Edward's wife, who has been seeing a psychiatrist, is engaged in an affair with Peter Quilpe, and believes that she has spent the last two months in a sanatorium. After making this discovery, he is ready to return to his marriage. Only after consultation with a psychiatrist, spurred by the belief that he is having a nervous breakdown, is he able to accept that his main problem is that he believes himself to be incapable of love. In the wake of this abandonment, he realizes that he wants his wife back, instead of the younger woman with whom he’s been having an affair. Edward is a middle-aged man whose wife has left him. ![]()
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