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ysabetwordsmithThis installment discusses the general relationships of Wednesday Addams in Wednesday.
Here is the character study:
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 2: Ethnicity & Linguistics
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 3: An Outcast
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 4: Thoughts and Feelings
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 5: Relationships
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 6: Solitary Accomplishments
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 7: Trust and Betrayal
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 8: Connected Characters
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 9: Enid
See also:
"Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
What are the results of Wednesday's staunch indifference to socializing, friendship, romance, and pretty much anything else involving other people? She has written four novels, the last one completed while attending school and solving a murder mystery. She literally spends an hour every day writing. Writing speed varies, anywhere from 100 to 5,000 words per hour, but the average is around 1,000-2,000; it adds up fast. I hope that thousands of young people watching Wednesday will think, "I could do that," and start writing an hour a day. In 5-10 years we'll have a flood of new authors! Another major skill is playing the cello with great passion and mastery, which she does on numerous occasions including one public performance.
Wednesday is highly skilled in numerous other areas, including but probably not limited to multiple languages, medicine, science, strategy and tactics, engineering, investigation and interrogation, swimming with sharks, singing at ultrasonic pitch, archery, fencing, hand-to-hand combat, acrobatics, escape artistry, taxidermy, and wilderness skills. Notably, when pressured to pick a club in Episode 2, Wednesday doesn't pick any of the things she's already good at; she picks a new discipline, beekeeping. This creates a tenuous but sometimes useful connection with Eugene Ottinger, president of the Nevermore Hummers.
Another thing I like is that we don't just hear about Wednesday's accomplishments, we actually get to see her putting in the work: she sits down and types, she practices her cello and gives a public performance. What she gains from avoiding the usual social stuff is a vast amount of time, energy, and money to devote to her own interests. While some people complain that Wednesday is a Mary Sue, they fail to account for the fact that she has far more resources to invest in personal development compared to other girls. I absolutely loved seeing not only a girl indifferent to social activities but one who clearly devoted herself to personal pursuits instead of the usual things, with the accomplishments to show for it. That tradeoff absolutely does work; I did the same thing, although with poetry rather than fiction. Olympic athletes, and sometimes other young specialists such as actors or musicians, often do it too.
Enid: I...
Wednesday: Silence would be appreciated.
This is my writing time.
Enid: Your writing time?
Wednesday: I devote an hour a day to my novel.
Perhaps if you did the same, your vlog might be coherent.
I've read serial killer diaries with better punctuation.
“I know I’m stubborn, single-minded and obsessive. But those are all traits of great writers. (Thing signs at her) Yes. And serial killers.”
-- (Ep. 1×02)
(Wednesday fixes the espresso machine for Tyler...)
Wednesday Addams: You have a valve issue. I've seen it before.
Tyler Galpin: Where? You have one of these monsters at home?
Wednesday Addams: Steam-powered guillotine. I built it when I was ten. I wanted to decapitate my dolls more efficiently.
Tyler Galpin: Sure. Grim Reaper Barbie, makes perfect sense.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 1, with the title of ‘Wednesday’s Child Is Full of Woe’
Bianca Barclay: What are you? Alto, soprano or just loco?
(Wednesday opens her mouth, the glass breaks...)
Bianca Barclay: Huh? What was that?
Wednesday Addams: A note only dogs can hear.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 2, with the title of ‘Woe Is the Loneliest Number’
Wednesday Addams: I know my way around the great outdoors.
Tyler Galpin: Don't tell me you were a Girl Scout.
Wednesday Addams: I could eat Girl Scouts for breakfast. I have an uncle who went to prison for that.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 3, with the title of ‘Friend or Woe’
Is Wednesday Addams a Mary Sue? -- Gabriel Diego Valdez
How To Make Time For Writing: 12 Tips for Busy Authors
How to Write 5000 Words an Hour with Chris Fox
How to Write WAY More Words Per Hour (Without Sacrificing Quality)
Novel Length: How Long is Long Enough?
Novels start at 40,000 words and go up to about 110,000 words, with 80,000 a contemporary average. At a speed of 1,000 words an hour, a 40,000 word novel can be written in just over a month. But the more you practice, the faster you tend to write. I'm betting that Wednesday's speed is faster, and thus, her four novels are longer. Then again, even with just that speed, it adds up to 365,000 words a year, which is more than enough for three maximum-length novels.
THE POWER OF AN HOUR: WRITING ROUTINES
WHAT MONSTER IS WEDNESDAY ADDAMS? POWERS AND ABILITIES EXPLAINED
Wednesday has poor people skills in general. However, her self-skills are excellent. Notice that society values and demands interpersonal skills but rarely bothers to teach or respect intrapersonal ones. Of course, Wednesday excels at the intrapersonal skills, as most introverts do, while people like Enid Sinclair and Bianca Barclay are the reverse.
As a result, Wednesday often comes across as cruel, even with family and what passes for friends. She expresses affection and attachment only in extreme moments. She makes some efforts at manipulation, but she's not actually good at it. She may have read Machiavelli, but she sucks at applying it. While many sociopaths can put on a charming front, she really can't, and that limits her ability to use people.
Wednesday also has no aim with personal interactions. She applies verbal abuse, and occasionally even physical abuse, to everyone indiscriminately, friend and foe alike. This undermines her ability to form alliances, which are materially useful even if she doesn't want affection. Wednesday isn't even great at cultivating allies through an exchange of favors, because she treats people badly in general. Interestingly, she has a werewolf roommate who could probably teach her all about dominance theory and group dynamics. In Episode 2, note how it's Enid who demands that Wednesday apologize to Thing: it makes Enid uncomfortable to see that Thing's submission to Wednesday's authority doesn't gain him better treatment.
However, many of the problems are also caused by other people pestering Wednesday. They demand things from her that she is unwilling or unable to give, or push things on her that she doesn't want, then blame her for the bad results -- from the boys wanting romantic attention to Enid wanting a friend for girlstuff. In that regard, they have only themselves to blame.
Wednesday Addams: [referring to the Nightshades] I’m not interested in joining.
Yoko Tanaka: You’re seriously turning us down?
Wednesday Addams: Can you believe it?
Bianca Barclay: Untie her.
Wednesday Addams: I freed myself five minutes ago.
Enid Sinclair: Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake you couldn't even be bothered to cut. You'll use anyone to get what you want, even if it means putting them in danger. We could have died tonight because of your stupid obsession.
Wednesday Addams: But we didn't.
Enid Sinclair: I've tried really, really, really hard to be your friend. Always put myself out there. Thought of your feelings. Told people, “I know she gives off serial killer vibes, but she's really just shy.”
Wednesday Addams: I never asked you to do that.
Enid Sinclair: You didn't have to, because that's what friends do. They don't have to be asked. And the fact that you don't know that says everything. You want to be alone, Wednesday? Be alone.
Wednesday Addams: Goody warned that I was destined to be alone. Maybe it's inevitable. But for the first time in my life, it doesn't feel good.
-- Wednesday Best Quotes
Tyler Galpin: You can keep trying to push me away. It's not going to work.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 7, with the title of ‘If You Don’t Woe Me by Now’
Wednesday Addams: You're making a mistake.
Tyler Galpin: Probably.
Wednesday Addams: Definitely.
(Tyler almost kisses Wednesday, but they get interrupted...)
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 7, with the title of ‘If You Don’t Woe Me by Now’
Tyler Galpin: You're like a cockroach.
Wednesday Addams: Please, flattery will get you nowhere.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 8, with the title of ‘A Murder of Woes’
Xavier: "Being your friend should come with a warning label."
-- Best Wednesday Quotes
12 Tips on How To Become the Dominate Partner in a Relationship
50+ Examples of Interpersonal Skills
A - Z List of Interpersonal Skills
Advance Your Career by Honing Your Intrapersonal Skills
HOW TO BUILD PEOPLE SKILLS FOR STUDENTS
How to Deal with Mean People
How to Deal With Verbal Abuse
Separating The Four Horsemen: Influence, Persuasion, Manipulation and Coercion
Teen Social Skills -- TherapyWorks
These 19 ‘Extroverted’ Behaviors Annoy Introverts the Most
Types of Social Skills
Here is the character study:
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 2: Ethnicity & Linguistics
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 3: An Outcast
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 4: Thoughts and Feelings
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 5: Relationships
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 6: Solitary Accomplishments
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 7: Trust and Betrayal
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 8: Connected Characters
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 9: Enid
See also:
"Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
What are the results of Wednesday's staunch indifference to socializing, friendship, romance, and pretty much anything else involving other people? She has written four novels, the last one completed while attending school and solving a murder mystery. She literally spends an hour every day writing. Writing speed varies, anywhere from 100 to 5,000 words per hour, but the average is around 1,000-2,000; it adds up fast. I hope that thousands of young people watching Wednesday will think, "I could do that," and start writing an hour a day. In 5-10 years we'll have a flood of new authors! Another major skill is playing the cello with great passion and mastery, which she does on numerous occasions including one public performance.
Wednesday is highly skilled in numerous other areas, including but probably not limited to multiple languages, medicine, science, strategy and tactics, engineering, investigation and interrogation, swimming with sharks, singing at ultrasonic pitch, archery, fencing, hand-to-hand combat, acrobatics, escape artistry, taxidermy, and wilderness skills. Notably, when pressured to pick a club in Episode 2, Wednesday doesn't pick any of the things she's already good at; she picks a new discipline, beekeeping. This creates a tenuous but sometimes useful connection with Eugene Ottinger, president of the Nevermore Hummers.
Another thing I like is that we don't just hear about Wednesday's accomplishments, we actually get to see her putting in the work: she sits down and types, she practices her cello and gives a public performance. What she gains from avoiding the usual social stuff is a vast amount of time, energy, and money to devote to her own interests. While some people complain that Wednesday is a Mary Sue, they fail to account for the fact that she has far more resources to invest in personal development compared to other girls. I absolutely loved seeing not only a girl indifferent to social activities but one who clearly devoted herself to personal pursuits instead of the usual things, with the accomplishments to show for it. That tradeoff absolutely does work; I did the same thing, although with poetry rather than fiction. Olympic athletes, and sometimes other young specialists such as actors or musicians, often do it too.
Enid: I...
Wednesday: Silence would be appreciated.
This is my writing time.
Enid: Your writing time?
Wednesday: I devote an hour a day to my novel.
Perhaps if you did the same, your vlog might be coherent.
I've read serial killer diaries with better punctuation.
“I know I’m stubborn, single-minded and obsessive. But those are all traits of great writers. (Thing signs at her) Yes. And serial killers.”
-- (Ep. 1×02)
(Wednesday fixes the espresso machine for Tyler...)
Wednesday Addams: You have a valve issue. I've seen it before.
Tyler Galpin: Where? You have one of these monsters at home?
Wednesday Addams: Steam-powered guillotine. I built it when I was ten. I wanted to decapitate my dolls more efficiently.
Tyler Galpin: Sure. Grim Reaper Barbie, makes perfect sense.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 1, with the title of ‘Wednesday’s Child Is Full of Woe’
Bianca Barclay: What are you? Alto, soprano or just loco?
(Wednesday opens her mouth, the glass breaks...)
Bianca Barclay: Huh? What was that?
Wednesday Addams: A note only dogs can hear.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 2, with the title of ‘Woe Is the Loneliest Number’
Wednesday Addams: I know my way around the great outdoors.
Tyler Galpin: Don't tell me you were a Girl Scout.
Wednesday Addams: I could eat Girl Scouts for breakfast. I have an uncle who went to prison for that.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 3, with the title of ‘Friend or Woe’
Is Wednesday Addams a Mary Sue? -- Gabriel Diego Valdez
How To Make Time For Writing: 12 Tips for Busy Authors
How to Write 5000 Words an Hour with Chris Fox
How to Write WAY More Words Per Hour (Without Sacrificing Quality)
Novel Length: How Long is Long Enough?
Novels start at 40,000 words and go up to about 110,000 words, with 80,000 a contemporary average. At a speed of 1,000 words an hour, a 40,000 word novel can be written in just over a month. But the more you practice, the faster you tend to write. I'm betting that Wednesday's speed is faster, and thus, her four novels are longer. Then again, even with just that speed, it adds up to 365,000 words a year, which is more than enough for three maximum-length novels.
THE POWER OF AN HOUR: WRITING ROUTINES
WHAT MONSTER IS WEDNESDAY ADDAMS? POWERS AND ABILITIES EXPLAINED
Wednesday has poor people skills in general. However, her self-skills are excellent. Notice that society values and demands interpersonal skills but rarely bothers to teach or respect intrapersonal ones. Of course, Wednesday excels at the intrapersonal skills, as most introverts do, while people like Enid Sinclair and Bianca Barclay are the reverse.
As a result, Wednesday often comes across as cruel, even with family and what passes for friends. She expresses affection and attachment only in extreme moments. She makes some efforts at manipulation, but she's not actually good at it. She may have read Machiavelli, but she sucks at applying it. While many sociopaths can put on a charming front, she really can't, and that limits her ability to use people.
Wednesday also has no aim with personal interactions. She applies verbal abuse, and occasionally even physical abuse, to everyone indiscriminately, friend and foe alike. This undermines her ability to form alliances, which are materially useful even if she doesn't want affection. Wednesday isn't even great at cultivating allies through an exchange of favors, because she treats people badly in general. Interestingly, she has a werewolf roommate who could probably teach her all about dominance theory and group dynamics. In Episode 2, note how it's Enid who demands that Wednesday apologize to Thing: it makes Enid uncomfortable to see that Thing's submission to Wednesday's authority doesn't gain him better treatment.
However, many of the problems are also caused by other people pestering Wednesday. They demand things from her that she is unwilling or unable to give, or push things on her that she doesn't want, then blame her for the bad results -- from the boys wanting romantic attention to Enid wanting a friend for girlstuff. In that regard, they have only themselves to blame.
Wednesday Addams: [referring to the Nightshades] I’m not interested in joining.
Yoko Tanaka: You’re seriously turning us down?
Wednesday Addams: Can you believe it?
Bianca Barclay: Untie her.
Wednesday Addams: I freed myself five minutes ago.
Enid Sinclair: Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake you couldn't even be bothered to cut. You'll use anyone to get what you want, even if it means putting them in danger. We could have died tonight because of your stupid obsession.
Wednesday Addams: But we didn't.
Enid Sinclair: I've tried really, really, really hard to be your friend. Always put myself out there. Thought of your feelings. Told people, “I know she gives off serial killer vibes, but she's really just shy.”
Wednesday Addams: I never asked you to do that.
Enid Sinclair: You didn't have to, because that's what friends do. They don't have to be asked. And the fact that you don't know that says everything. You want to be alone, Wednesday? Be alone.
Wednesday Addams: Goody warned that I was destined to be alone. Maybe it's inevitable. But for the first time in my life, it doesn't feel good.
-- Wednesday Best Quotes
Tyler Galpin: You can keep trying to push me away. It's not going to work.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 7, with the title of ‘If You Don’t Woe Me by Now’
Wednesday Addams: You're making a mistake.
Tyler Galpin: Probably.
Wednesday Addams: Definitely.
(Tyler almost kisses Wednesday, but they get interrupted...)
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 7, with the title of ‘If You Don’t Woe Me by Now’
Tyler Galpin: You're like a cockroach.
Wednesday Addams: Please, flattery will get you nowhere.
This quote comes from a TV series ‘Wednesday’. The scene where this moment comes from is from Season 1 Episode 8, with the title of ‘A Murder of Woes’
Xavier: "Being your friend should come with a warning label."
-- Best Wednesday Quotes
12 Tips on How To Become the Dominate Partner in a Relationship
50+ Examples of Interpersonal Skills
A - Z List of Interpersonal Skills
Advance Your Career by Honing Your Intrapersonal Skills
HOW TO BUILD PEOPLE SKILLS FOR STUDENTS
How to Deal with Mean People
How to Deal With Verbal Abuse
Separating The Four Horsemen: Influence, Persuasion, Manipulation and Coercion
Teen Social Skills -- TherapyWorks
These 19 ‘Extroverted’ Behaviors Annoy Introverts the Most
Types of Social Skills
