Claire was not the princess of unattainable beauty that The Town portrays:
Claire was not the princess of unattainable beauty that The Town portrays. Not only does she look too much like a character out of a storybook, but she's really not that pretty let alone beautiful, when one stops to really think about it. Claire's skin is super-pale, as if the blood has totally gone out of her, she looks super-anemic, plus her features are way, way overemphasized. Her dark-brown hair is super-thin and lank, with no body to it at all, and it just hangs there. There are times in this film when Claire looks just plain awful, and the way she dresses, the cameras, and her whole way of moving about simply emphasize that. The fact that she constantly dresses in black or other dark colors only draw attention to all that, as well.
Moreover, Claire's actions and behaviors reveal the kind of person that she really is. She comes off as a sympathetic person right before, right when and right after her bank is robbed at gunpoint by Doug MacRay and his men, when she begins crying in the laundromat right afterwards and Doug and his men put a blindfold around her eyes, take her hostage, drop her off on the beach at Day Boulevard and make her walk towards the water still blindfolded were certainly not her fault.
Claire's actions and behaviors afterewards, however, are a whole different story, and help to reveal the kind of person that she really and truly is: A shrewed, conniving, manipulative, sneaky and willfully ignorant individual who not only knew what she was doing when she got into a romance with Doug and covered his ass whenever she could, acted in an arrogant bitchy way towards FBI Agt. Frawley when he tried to help her out, and being nasty to Frawley when he showed the photographs of Doug and his men robbing her bank at gunpoint, and pointing out that her getting a wholesale romance with Doug necessitated her having a lawyer, I totally lost any empathy and sympathy towards Claire that I'd had earlier.
Moreover, the fact that Claire spent Doug's blood-stained loot money on the renovation of the Charlestown Ice Hockey rink, instead of turning the stolen money over to the proper authorities instead of procuring the money in a more honest fashion, shows that she has no conscience, or regard for the law, or for the fact that receiving stolen goods could very well have landed her in prison for awhile. The fact that she not only covered Doug's ass whenever she could and accepted an expensive diamond necklace from Doug also reveals what Claire really and truly is, also.