Swenson

I feel sorry about profesor Swenson when his wife found out he was sleeping with Angela because everything wouldn’t have happend if Angela didn’t have a game planned. He was an easy prey. Although, cheating is wrong there are some people who like to ruin people’s lives.

Blue angel poem related

I was looking through the poetry book and as I read “pencil” pg 120 it remind me of the profesor and how Angela’s writing was able to attract him. The pencil can write multiple things and sometimes it may lie but it always have a strong attachment towards other people.

Blue Angel #2

So Angela didn't feel the same way about Swenson. That's a shocker. In the book, it says Swenson has been dreading that moment when she reveals why she really slept with him but if he was worried about that to begin with, he should have just not dealt with her. I find some of Swenson's actions unbelievable sometimes. I get that there has to be some suspension of disbelief here but come on, this man's actions are not realistic at all. The minute he got involved with Angela, he should have wiretapped every conversation after that just to be sure that if the story were to get out, he could control it with evidence. Then again, Swenson acting like an idiot sometimes is more likely of a scenario than someone wiretapping every conversation they have with a student after they sleep with them.

Blue Angel

I don't understand why the group critiques Swenson holds is such a big deal. Swenson acts as if Angela might just kill herself or stop writing all together if her work was to be critiqued at least once. It's weird. Swenson has this protective feeling towards Angela. He wants to shield her from the realities of the world, or in this case, the class. That would almost be kind of admirable if he didn't sleep with her. Something that threw me off a bit was when Swenson said that Angela's work was better than anything that was critiqued that semester. I understand He "loves" her but at that point, he's just begging for people to prod and figure out why he really favors Angela so much.

Blue Anngel

I found it a bit interesting that when Swenson took his daughter to the computer store, that he took the same route, and it almost seemed as if though besides the difference in character, the car ride too and from the store was almost the same. I also think that Swenson views Angela as his ' version' of what he expected his daughter to be, (without the sex ofc...) I think part of the reason that he is attracted to angela is one, He views her as a younger female version of himself, and two, I think in some regards, she is the daughter that never took up writing, if that makes any sense... I have yet to read the ending of this book. but that is my thoughts on how Swenson views Angela...

When Swenson took off to see his editor Len in New York about Angela's novel, I think he felt that he owed that favor to Angela and he had no choice because he had slept with her. I think it was foolish for him as a respectable writer and professor to ask his own publisher about his student work. And not forgetting left on thanksgiving weekend when his daughter was finally coming home to visit. I also feel like he was threatened by the way Angela came off on him and he taught that she would probably try to blackmail him if he doesn’t talk to Len about her novel. After his trip to New York, when he took Ruby to purchase her computer at the same store, he took Angela to get her computer, he was thinking about how Angela knows what she wanted and Ruby doesn’t, he was trying to make himself feel better about what he did, like Angela was up to this standard more like a women and Ruby is just a child. Also, when I read this part, I had this kind of nervous feeling like how he was feeling in the store, what if someone who saw him with Angela comes up to mention he was here before with another young lady.

Blue Angel

Angela had already made plans to bring Swenson down if he was not able to give the novel to the editor. After he was called to the Dean, he found out that Angela had recorded their conversation. She had revealed another side of herself. All this time she had on a facade. It's downhill for Swenson now. After confessing to his wife, she was furious and she is went to Shurley's house. The same goes for his daughter who will not be spending Christmas with Swenson. He risked everyone including his career for someone that he was not obligated to give special treatment. I think since he lost motivation in writing his novel and how he saw so much passion in Angela's writing, he fell in lover with her. I guess it was his twisted psychology that if he tries to get closer to Angela, maybe something will spark in him. I may be wrong but he metaphorically saw Angela as the pen to his novel or the gate to new ideas? Anyways that's how I see it.