Which character has the best role as an actress?

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I bought this film, I loved it so much. I'm also taking the role of Martha Dobie to a theatre competition in two weeks.

I definitely find that Martha is the best role...for all of the reasons you listed there, friend. :) Apart from what you said, though, I relate very closely to Martha...she breaks my heart. Shirley Maclaine was outstanding in this role. All of that pain, self-hatred, guilt and at the same time, she is who she is and loves Karen....I've been there. I have been on that same edge...so I feel I am Martha in many ways. Or used to be. Makes me cry, just thinking about the fact that she hangs herself in the end. Of course, in the play she shoots herself..which is much more gruesome..but it's done off-stage, so..but still more effective, I think. I don't know, either way...it's Martha hands down for me. She is the one most deeply and consequentially affected by everything, I think. She is the most destroyed and heart-breaking character. Also the most difficult to play, in my opinion.

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i personally would choose karen as my preferred character to portray in this movie or the play. i am playing karen in a scene from the play in a theatre competition in a couple weeks, and for me, she goes through A LOT!! her life is ruined by an untrue rumor, and she loses her fiance and best friend due to other people's bigotry and hatred. karen is the one who has to live with all this pressure for the rest of her life, and i think she undergoes a HUGE transformation throughout the duration of the play/movie, just by experiencing the persecution of homosexuals firsthand.