Rear Window

Hi All!
I wanted to address three apartments in relation to Jeffries. The first is Miss Lonely Hearts. During her trial/run through dinner the parallel between her and Lisa becomes really obvious. They have similar movements during the scene and the two respective tables they are at even have the same candle sticks (and absent man). Even though Lisa and Miss Lonely Hearts are both in an empty relationship of sorts I argue that Jeffries is more like his neighbor than Lisa. Lisa gets to leave. Miss Lonely Hearts and Jeffries cannot really do that. The one time that we know Miss Lonely Hearts leaves she is still in the frame of the rear window. Lisa leaves for hours at a time, has a job, other people that she sees who we don't get to see. She has a life outside of the window, unlike Jeffries and Miss Lonely Hearts.
Even though he does have a job and a significant other, if one of his neighbors looked in his window most of the time he would be looking back. They might not see Lisa or Stella and they probably wouldn't know about his career. To them he would look lonely- maybe they would call him Mr. Lonely Hearts? Speaking of significant others, even though Miss Lonely Hearts and Lisa have similar roles in that dinner scene, so do Miss Lonely Hearts and Jeffries. She is toasting to someone who is imaginary and he is toasting to a fill-in-the-blank spot. I think no matter who Lisa was she would not have been enough, therefore replaceable. Especially during that dinner scene, I think Jeffries wouldn't mind trading spots with Miss Lonely Hearts. I won't lie, at the beginning I though Jeffries would end up with her because of Lisa asking him if there was anyone that Lonely Hearts could be set up with who was available.
The next two apartments are ones we kind of skimmed over in class- the Family in the upper right corner and the newlyweds on the left. I agree that the newlyweds provided some humor in the movie, but I think the placement of the two apartments in the kind of sent a message. Reading left to right like Barney taught me, first I look at the rough patch, then you look at the happy family: Even though there are bad times, there are good times too. And because (assuming)we all left to right it could even be read as a progression: you have to go through bad to get the good.
As a side note, they usually showed the husband looking out right after they had shown Miss Torso's apartment, so I assumed he was looking at her. That goes along with Jeffries being more interested in what is going on outside his apartment than inside.

Either way, I'm convinced Hitchcock was a genius.

Happy Semester!