Character Analysis: It's A Wonderful Life

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Appreciate life Many people don't appreciate their life and George was one of them.George is mad at himself and his uncle Billy. George didn't appreciate what he had in life. George's perspective has been changed from Clarence the angel.”It's A Wonderful Life”displays to appreciate the wonderful life you have. Therefore, George was mad at himself and his uncle Billy.George was mad at himself for trusting uncle Billy To drop off the $8,000. Another reason is because George was mad at himself for letting family work at his own bank, that his father passed down to him when he died. George asks uncle Billy to go to Mr. Potter’s bank. So Uncle Billy accepted and happily went to Mr.potter’s bank where he would deposit $8,000. uncle Billy …show more content…
First the bar name was Nick’s now it turns into Tilly's. Nick the wonderful owner of the bar,didn’t even know George, and kicked them out of the bar because he felt something strange about them two and Clarence said he was going to become 293 next week. Before Nick kicked them out he saw Mr.Gower.Nick said “Haven’t I told you not to come here again.”Then sprayed mr.Gower with a beer bottle afterward kicked him out.George asked why he kicks him out? Nick answered “He spent 20 years in jail for poisoning a kid” but if George was there that child would still be alive. That kid wasn't just a kid, it was Mr.Gower’s …show more content…
Mr.Gower gave his son pills of poison by accident, but if George was there he would have saved him. When George was a child, he was working for mr.Gower at the drugstore after school. Mr.Gower had taught George how to check if the pills were poisonous or if they were healthy, but Mr.Gower never check the pills that he was giving his son George came in the room that mr.Gower was in and checked the pills George told mr.Gower that the pills that he was giving his son where poisonous pills and mr. Gower sat up from his chair that he was sitting on and then hug George because he would have killed his son and gone to jail that's why he should appreciate his life. Mr.Gower felt relieved, and happy. After he had been kicked him out of the bar. He went outside and ordered a taxi and the taxi drive George to his old house. The taxi driver made a sign to policeman to follow him. George arrived and discharged from the taxi and into his house and a policeman was there sneaking near where George was yelling out “Mary, Mary” but Mary wasn't there because George had not existed.George began searching in the house. Mary became a librarian.George went looking for his mother, but his mother couldn’t recognize him. George went back to the place where he had saved Clarence and praise long and hard because he wanted to go back to his world where he had the best life.Where he had his children, his wife, his friends, his family

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