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\nRobert Nathan’s Portrait of Jennie is a story about art, with a bit of fantasy peering around the edges of its pages. \u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 narrator and protagonist is Eben Andrews, an everyman starving artist living in the rumbling belly of New York City during the Depression era. \u00c2\u00a0He is lonely, faithless and uninspired until he meets Jennie, his ethereal muse. \u00c2\u00a0Published in 1939, a movie adaptation was released in 1948 by Selznick Studios, starring Jennifer Jones as Jennie and Joseph\u00c2\u00a0Cotten as Eben. \u00c2\u00a0The movie stayed fairly faithful to the book, but shifted the focus from art to love with a healthy dose of fantasy in its eerie dreamscapes and misty surrealism. \u00c2\u00a0When comparing and contrasting the two mediums of Jennie, it quickly becomes a debate of art versus love. \u00c2\u00a0The novel and movie lends us fascinating, tortured, complex characters, ripe for some analysis, as well as the countless themes and motifs […]<\/p>\n
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