Mathilde has become a ‘city girl’. Still a committed environmentalist, she mostly thinks about nature very-technocratically, as something to be managed, adopting an antrhropocentric eco-system services approach. She does, however, have moments of distraction and hence insight/doubt – finds herself faraway, stroking the leaf of a plant etc. She is confident and competent, serious and sincere but politically and personally somewhat naive. Though she is attractive and dresses smartly – in ecologically correct fashions, of course – she keeps her sexuality on a tight rein. The cliché would be that she is an ice-queen. She is emotionally warmest with the much older academic ecologist, George Gee. She is disdainful of the sensuous, perhaps bisexual, Joe Dann, repulsed but strangely drawn by his reptilian charm.
Matilda is very rural in the heart of the city. She is weather beaten, has rough hands and dirt under her nails. She thinks about nature as alive and relational, talking to plants, investing all nature with intrinsic value. Though she knows that a few deep ecologists can’t save the world, she nevertheless continues to try to do ‘the right thing’. She is generally self-effacing but with occasional shows of a steel will and a wicked sense humour. This side of herself she reveals most with the permaculture gardener G when they are alone in the garden. She is attractive in a hippy style but does nothing to deliberately ‘sell herself’. She wears second-hand, faded and practical clothes. Her sexuality is ambiguous. Though assumedly heterosexual, she unpredictably flirts with or cold-shoulders Jordan, the eco-feminist activist. Generally, Matilda is warm and friendly, though sudden blinding headaches can cause her to occasionally speak sharply or even lash out. As a cliché, she’d be the earth mother type, though, perhaps earth sister is a better description.
Mathilde has become a ‘city girl’. Still a committed environmentalist, she mostly thinks about nature very-technocratically, as something to be managed, adopting an antrhropocentric eco-system services approach. She does, however, have moments of distraction and hence insight/doubt – finds herself faraway, stroking the leaf of a plant etc. She is confident and competent, serious and sincere but politically and personally somewhat naive. Though she is attractive and dresses smartly – in ecologically correct fashions, of course – she keeps her sexuality on a tight rein. The cliché would be that she is an ice-queen. She is emotionally warmest with the much older academic ecologist, George Gee. She is disdainful of the sensuous, perhaps bisexual, Joe Dann, repulsed but strangely drawn by his reptilian charm.
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