Archetyping: The Librarian

Sofia
St. Angeles

The TV sitcom "Cheers" (1982-1993) had two Librarians! TWO! Diane Chambers is a mousey head-before-heart gal who doesn’t know how to take a joke, however you can’t help but love her. She’s painfully out of her element as a waitress in a bar, but you’ve got to give the girl props for her stick-to-it-iveness. Dr. Lilith Sternin is a buttons-to-the-top, humor-challenged, know-it-all who grates on the nerves like nails on a chalkboard. She doesn’t mean to...suck lemons...but she really doesn’t want or care to know how to do things any other way (as a side note, these two characters are connected by backstory. They dated the same Genius character, Dr. Frasier Crane. Interesting dynamic, but that’ll have to wait for some other article.) So, why did I pick this example? Because sometimes people have a hard time with archetypes. They can’t help feeling like they’re being judged or unfairly pigeonholed.

Read the entire article in the June 2016 issue of InD'Tale magazine.

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