Having now empathized with the protagonist, the audience feels her rage when she does, feels her sadness, feels her frustration and stress and connects with her. Verna opens the window into the story through herself as the readers humanize her through their own emotions and sympathy. Speaking of being “shunned by the girls” (pg 3 Atwood) , readers feel her loneliness and can understand the great distress and embarrassment the assault caused her.. With the audiences emotions tapped into, Verna begins planning her revenge. How will she kill Bob and get away with it? Readers know exactly what Verna is thinking as she goes through the many different scenarios in her head and different problems that may arise once he is dead. Although Verna is killing a person, the readers remain loyal to her and believe she is doing the right thing once they have empathized with
Having now empathized with the protagonist, the audience feels her rage when she does, feels her sadness, feels her frustration and stress and connects with her. Verna opens the window into the story through herself as the readers humanize her through their own emotions and sympathy. Speaking of being “shunned by the girls” (pg 3 Atwood) , readers feel her loneliness and can understand the great distress and embarrassment the assault caused her.. With the audiences emotions tapped into, Verna begins planning her revenge. How will she kill Bob and get away with it? Readers know exactly what Verna is thinking as she goes through the many different scenarios in her head and different problems that may arise once he is dead. Although Verna is killing a person, the readers remain loyal to her and believe she is doing the right thing once they have empathized with