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Date: October 2, 2014 at 12:13:04 PM MDT
To: seth weidenaar <sethweidenaar@gmail.com>
Subject: 4257

Oscar Wilds' Lady Windermere's Fan Play uses the dialogue of its characters to state what each one values and their place in society. Dutchess of Berwick, Lord Darlington, and Lady Winderemere are all about their own worlds and are oblivious to one another's expectations and intentions of the Windermere's birthday celebration. Both Lady and the dutchess seem to agree and what is appropriate and good, Darlington, who is a guest at the dance, will go against their expectations without them knowing, " Nowdays to be intelligible is to be found out".

Lady Windermere and Duchess of Berwick are of a higher class and see to it that the parties they attend reveal that it is so. "I don't know what society is coming to. The most dreadful people sem to be going everywhere...someone should make a stand against it." Both ladies are also in agreement about the dance being formal and quaint, " I will have no one in my house whom there is any scandal," says Windermere and Berwick goes on to add, "men don't matter. With women its is different. We're good. Some of us at least." 

Lord Darlington is a confident and arrogant man who seeks nothing but attention, which are his intentions for the ball. His opinion on guest and the formality of the dance obviously differs from the women, "Oh don't say that Windermere, I shall never be admitted," in to windermere's comment of having no scandal in her home. His disrespect for marriage shows that he is careless, "the game of marriage-a game, the way, is going out of fashion. His witty conversation gets him an invitation to the party even though the goes against the prefered "select" few line 23. Even Winderemere doesn't not understand yet syas, "but you are not to say foolish, insincere things to people. 

In conclusion, each character is focused only on his/her own desires and does not pay attention to what the other is saying because they are all caught up in the idea of the perfect celebration. The dance will not turn out in favor of the women or the Lord if all guest show up at the party with contradicting assumptions.