Conrad's Use Of Conflict In The Film Ordinary People

In Ordinary People, it tells the story of Conrad Jarrett, as he goes through

conflicts with his parents and friends. He faces not being accepted by a lot of different people

since he tried to commit suicide after he blamed himself for his brother’s death. Most of the

conflicts he encounters are between him and his family and are fueled by his mother. There are

many methods that could have been used to help the situation and make some progress in the

relationship.

Conrad had much conflict in this film and didn’t use very good strategies to handle them.

Half the time he was very reserved about what he thought, and then other times he would lash

out at people. He was more quiet towards the beginning of the film then it shifted about …show more content…
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Could have approached these in such better ways. She really needed to talk to someone about

what she was going through, but instead she just kept all of it bottled up. You can tell she has a

lot of emotions just being kept inside of her, because towards the end of the film, she blurts out

“Well, Buck would have never been in the hospital in the first place”. This shows how much

struggle she is going through. She needed to sit down with Conrad and talk about how she is

feeling and hear the same from him.

Calvin, Conrad’s father, Was more quiet during the movie. There was really only one

scene where he expressed violence. A scene that showed how quiet he was, was when Conrad

yelled at him for not giving Beth the camera, instead of talking to him and seeing where this

outburst of anger was coming from, he instead just looked at the ground and handed over the

camera. The only scene where he really showed violence was when he got into the fight with

Beth and he told her that he didn’t love her anymore. He could have handled this better by using

mirroring and telling her how she seemed to be feeling. This could have helped her open up