The Heart Goes Last Lesson Plan

Charmaine appears to have very different sides to her personality. What are they? Do you find her different personalities to be contradictory or hypocritical? Explain.

Superficially, Charmaine is sweet, cheery, innocent, and thoughtful. This is the only version of her Stan knew before finding out about her cheating and her job at Positron from Jocelyn. It is part of who she is, though she also has a darker side. It is her darker side that lets her have the affair with Max and finds the dirtiness of their relationship to be a turn-on. Related to Charmaine’s job, the one where she murders people, she exhibits both sides of her personality. On the one hand, she’s okay...