Meredith Grey Character Analysis

This episode is one of the rare episodes that doesn’t revolve around the title character Meredith Grey. Instead we get an in depth view of April and Jackson’s relationship from the end to the beginning. This episode shows how the reaction to one traumatic event can impact a marriage. Jackson Avery and April Kepner went to medical residency together. Jackson became a plastic surgeon and April became a trauma surgeon. There is narration at the beginning and end of the episode that talks about how a person may not understand why or how things happen but they do happen for a reason. The spectacle of the episode was the fact that we see their marriage unfold from the end to the beginning. The show revolves around Meredith Grey but for once we get to look into Jackson and April’s lives and we see how they end up where they are.

Materialistic Lense …show more content…
They are both young surgeons at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Jackson is mixed black and white and April is white. Jackson grew up with a silver spoon and April grew up on a farm in the middle of the country.

Semiotic Lense
Everything is shown backwards in a sepia tone. The first scene has April, Jacksons and their lawyers sitting at a table singing divorce papers and we take a step back to losing the baby, then finding out they were pregnant and seeing how happy they were, all the way to Jackson stopping April from marrying another man and the first time they met. It was easier as a viewer to see how they ended up where they were by doing everything in reverse. In the end it was very impactful to see how miserable they became to how happy and hopeful they were when they started their first day as medical interns.

Ethno-Historical