They do not care about showing their real self, they just wnat to look good. It was all for show off and now his family and friends were all gone.įinally, in “Good Country People”, the characters are Southern like in “Petrified Man”, and like the two other stories, people are very image conscious. He realized he went through life doing all those parties and trying to show off,but it didn’t mean anything. When Neddy (Main Character) is swimming through all the swimming pools, he is having fun at the beginning but at the end he says, ““It was probably the first time in his adult life that he had ever cried, certainly the first time in his life that he had ever felt so miserable, cold, tired, and bewildered” (1231).It didn’t mean he was just tired from the swimming. They judge each other based on the money (the Biswangers) and their life is just spent in cocktail parties and gossiping. In “The Swimmer”, people are superficial in same way. Fletcher’s pregnancy without even knowing her. Pike is so gossipy that she told other people about Mrs. Pike possibly know I was pregnant or otherwise, when she doesn’t even know me?” This shows that Mrs. They do not care about their husbands or children and gossip all the day. Even though the story is set in a beauty parlor in the South, the women have very ugly personalities. In “Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty, the women are very gossipy and not like the typical woman of that time.They do all sort of manly things, like smoking and working. A theme common to all three stories is the insincere nature of people. It has also been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama Series.These stories were so boring…that is another common themeĪll three stories were set around the same time (1940s/1950s) in small cities of the United States.
Cohan joined the cast in the second season of the show, and since then, the series has won several awards including a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Drama and a Satellite Award for Best Television Series, Drama. In 2011 she landed the role of a lifetime as Maggie Greene in AMC’s horror drama TV series, The Walking Dead. She has also guest starred on several popular shows including Cold Case, CSI: NY, The Bold and the Beautiful, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and the ABC series Modern Family with fellow actors Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, and Ty Burrell. She has had several recurring roles including playing the character Bela Talbot in The CW series Supernatural and Rose in the popular CW series The Vampire Diaries in which she starred alongside actors Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and Paul Wesley. Lauren’s film career also includes roles in Young Alexander the Great, Practical, Disturbed, Death Race 2, and Reach Me in 2013.Ĭelebrity speaker Lauren Cohen is perhaps better known for her television acting. The following year, she starred in the sequel to Ryan Reynolds’ comedy National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, called National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj with actor Kal Penn.
Cohan joined big name actors Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, and Jeremy Irons in the movie and her acting career was off and running. Actress and celebrity speaker Lauren Cohan has been appearing in films and television series since her first role in a big name film, playing Sister Beatrice in the 2005 movie Casanova.