Rear Window - Parker Sealy

In Rear Window, the songwriter is working on a song that is essentially finished by the last scene when he is playing it for Miss Lonelyhearts. This represents realism while it also represents dramatic meaning. It is realistic because the audience can hear it as well as the characters. This makes the scene more believable because they use to music to interact. The audience believes the plot more when there is a sense of realism. It also has dramatic meaning because it goes hand in hand with Miss Lonelyhearts’ almost suicide. This song ultimately becomes her alternate. She doesn’t kill herself because she gets a sense of life through this song and so does LB Jeffries. The song is completed by the end, which represents Jeffries becoming more alive and not dead in his chair watching others live. He does end in a chair still but his life is appearing to go on unlike when he was first stuck in the chair.