Character Analysis: The Bachelorette

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The text which I would like to talk about is one that I began reading as intentionally oppositionally, but one that with time become a text that brought me into the dominant or preferred reading of it. What I would like to talk about is The Bachelorette. The first episode I remember watching was in the middle of the show’s sixth season in 2010 where the Bachelorette — Ali — found herself in the hot springs of Iceland with her entourage of characteristically diverse group of boyfriends. What I enjoyed so much about this initial viewing was although I was a young thirteen year old, I could outwardly recognized and commentate to myself just how ridiculous it was that these grown men could put themselves in the public eye as a fraction of a boyfriend …show more content…
The recurring theme with him was the story of his deceased mother that meant the world to him — specifically this one antidote in which she told Chris to look for her in the rainbows. Although Chris seemed like a tremendously genuine man compared to some of the other contestants, I can now see that Chris and his story were simplified and exploited by the show in a politically subversive way to establish the contestants viewers are to reject and dislike and those viewers are to accept and feel empathy towards. So when Chris was not chosen by Ali as he sat beneath a huge rainbow giving the emotional “everything happens for a reason” monologue during the season finale, I found myself with tears in my eyes. I always remember that moment because it was then that I thought about how I started off watching a show laughing at it, and after half a season I was crying with it. But now as I reflect on this occurrence within my Bachelorette viewing phase, I realize that I was having this type of emotional response not because of the beauty and serendipity of reality displayed, but I suppose I was just giving into the preferred reading of this show on the most grand scale. The producers furnished Chris’s story line and final moment on the show in hopes to evoke this type of emotional response from their viewers, and I myself fell victim to this emotion spider web. With time and my return to the oppositional reading of the
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