The Wedding Ceremony By The Sarah Siddons Awards Banquet

The movie began with the 40th ceremony, called the Sarah Siddons awards banquet. One of the main characters, and the individual (patient) who the movie was titled after, Eve Harrington, was receiving an important award for acting. The movie was a flashback from that point, to the events, which had transpired, leading up to Eve positioning herself to launch her acting career. Eve essentially stalked her idol Margo Channing, by attending all of her performances, and eventually convincing Margo s best friend Karen, to introduce them to each other. Eve was very manipulative and upon meeting Margo she continually lied, played an innocent role, and was as helpful as she could possible be. Eve grew closer to Margo and became somewhat of a second†¦show more content†¦History of clients’ illness (past present) The patient Eve was noted to be a compulsive liar, and it was revealed by Addison that she had lied about her entire life story, since being let into Margo s inner ci rcle. She claimed to have grown up on a farm in Wisconsin, and claimed that she quit school, left home, and went to Milwaukee where she got a job at a brewery. As part of her evaluation, the series of event, which lead up to her, leaving home at such an early age (which is apparently true). She had presumably been conducting herself in this manipulative fashion since her teenage years, because she was paid to leave her brewery job, by the wife of her boss. The logical presumption is that she was manipulating the husband to achieve some goal, and the wife found out about it, disapproved so severely that she wanted Eve to move out of town. Eve also lied about her non-existent husband Eddie , and lied about him dying in the war . She lied about following Margo since first seeing her at the Schubert theater in San Francisco, because there is no Schubert theater in San Francisco. This was verified by Addison when he confronted her. From the night she manipulated Karen into introducing her to Margo, she made great first impressions on everyone. She would individually approach the other characters and utilize them to the best of her ability, without regards to