Gerald Croft: Hero or Villain
1. You can tell Gerald really thought highly of himself for ‘saving’ Daisy Renton because
whenever he recounted the story, he made himself sound like such a ‘humble hero.’
‘So I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to
keep her going there’, you can tell Gerald thought it was so good of him to give
someone somewhere to stay for free, despite the fact it didn’t cost him anything. ‘I
made her take some money’, is such a ‘heroic’ line and makes Gerald sound
generous and giving, which he obviously thinks he is. Another thing he mentions is ‘ I
suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and
intensely grateful’, even while stating what he did wrong, he made it sound like it
was perfectly fine.
2. Although Gerald portrayed his treatment of Daisy as generous and hospitable, really,
it was for his own selfish benefit. He gave her somewhere to stay, but she soon
became his mistress. The money he gave her was only to make it seem like she
wasn’t being used. Everything he did for Daisy benefited him in one way or another.
He sent Daisy out, back into the same situation he had heroically saved her from,
when it suited him. ‘I became at once the most important person in her life’. This
proves how poorly he treated her because he used her and when he did not need
her anymore, it was so easy for him to just send her away again, knowing that he
was the most important person in her life; making him the villain, not the hero.
1. You can tell Gerald really thought highly of himself for ‘saving’ Daisy Renton because
whenever he recounted the story, he made himself sound like such a ‘humble hero.’
‘So I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to
keep her going there’, you can tell Gerald thought it was so good of him to give
someone somewhere to stay for free, despite the fact it didn’t cost him anything. ‘I
made her take some money’, is such a ‘heroic’ line and makes Gerald sound
generous and giving, which he obviously thinks he is. Another thing he mentions is ‘ I
suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and
intensely grateful’, even while stating what he did wrong, he made it sound like it
was perfectly fine.
2. Although Gerald portrayed his treatment of Daisy as generous and hospitable, really,
it was for his own selfish benefit. He gave her somewhere to stay, but she soon
became his mistress. The money he gave her was only to make it seem like she
wasn’t being used. Everything he did for Daisy benefited him in one way or another.
He sent Daisy out, back into the same situation he had heroically saved her from,
when it suited him. ‘I became at once the most important person in her life’. This
proves how poorly he treated her because he used her and when he did not need
her anymore, it was so easy for him to just send her away again, knowing that he
was the most important person in her life; making him the villain, not the hero.
