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In the following excerpt from Douglas Post's adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, we can learn a lot about the character Mr. Toad as he sits in jail after stealing and crashing a car. Take a careful look at the selection:
In the following excerpt from Douglas Post's adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, we can learn a lot about the character Mr. Toad as he sits in jail after stealing and crashing a car. Take a careful look at the selection:
What can we learn about Toad's character from reading this page?
Things Margaret says about him:
That her father is "tired of his sulks and airs" and whiny, childish, melodramatic behavior. Apparently, Toad's habit is to whine and scream and throw temper tantrums.
That he is a storyteller, sharing tales of his friends Water Rat, Mole, and Badger.
"You talk too much; that's your chief fault."
"You're very rich"
Her short response to Toad's negative comment about the aunt's figure tells us that Margaret thinks that Toad is rude ("Well, so has my aunt, for what she is").
She describes Toad as "horrid, proud, ungrateful".
Things he says about himself:
It sounds like he is a flatterer: Margaret does him a favor and he over-compliments her, calling her "pleasant" and "good-hearted" - even though he hasn't cared enough to learn her name until now.
"I'm just a big, sentimental animal at heart"
He makes judgments about people and their occupations - when Margaret says she has an aunt who is a washerwoman, Toad interrupts her because he thinks she needs to be comforted about that fact.
"I wasn't aware I had any faults." Mr. Toad is very conceited. He thinks a lot of himself and doesn't pay attention to his own shortcomings.
"I am not! I have a very elegant figure." When Mr. Toad reacts so harshly to being compared to Margaret's aunt, he tells us a couple of things: A) he is judgmental not only about the aunt's occupation, like we saw earlier, but her looks as well. B) He thinks that for a toad, he is quite handsome.
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Things Margaret says about him:
That her father is "tired of his sulks and airs" and whiny, childish, melodramatic behavior. Apparently, Toad's habit is to whine and scream and throw temper tantrums.
That he is a storyteller, sharing tales of his friends Water Rat, Mole, and Badger.
"You talk too much; that's your chief fault."
"You're very rich"
Her short response to Toad's negative comment about the aunt's figure tells us that Margaret thinks that Toad is rude ("Well, so has my aunt, for what she is").
She describes Toad as "horrid, proud, ungrateful".
Things he says about himself:
It sounds like he is a flatterer: Margaret does him a favor and he over-compliments her, calling her "pleasant" and "good-hearted" - even though he hasn't cared enough to learn her name until now.
"I'm just a big, sentimental animal at heart"
He makes judgments about people and their occupations - when Margaret says she has an aunt who is a washerwoman, Toad interrupts her because he thinks she needs to be comforted about that fact.
"I wasn't aware I had any faults." Mr. Toad is very conceited. He thinks a lot of himself and doesn't pay attention to his own shortcomings.
"I am not! I have a very elegant figure." When Mr. Toad reacts so harshly to being compared to Margaret's aunt, he tells us a couple of things: A) he is judgmental not only about the aunt's occupation, like we saw earlier, but her looks as well. B) He thinks that for a toad, he is quite handsome.
(Return to the full article on script analysis here.)