{"id":17056,"date":"2023-03-06T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=17056"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:08:08","slug":"joe-goldberg-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2023\/03\/06\/joe-goldberg-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Goldberg Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Okay, so hi everybody and as\u00a0usual I have no idea what to do for this week\u2019s blog soooo I guess I\u2019ll be doing a character analysis of Joe Goldberg from the Netflix series \u201cYou.\u201d Joe\u2019s name in real life is Penn Badgley, but that\u2019s irrelevant right now. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Joe is a book fanatic who started off working in a library. He was abused as a child and eventually turned into an orphan where the library owner found him getting into trouble and took him in. As a result of his childhood, Joe clings to people and forms strange attachments to them. Joe doesn\u2019t even have to know a person to become attached to them. If he looks at you and finds you appealing, then no matter how hard he tries, he can\u2019t stay away from you. After Joe starts to find you appealing, he then wants to get to know every little thing about you and that can be a very good or a very bad thing. It can only be decided by how the person treats Joe. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Joe doesn\u2019t get to know a person like you and I. Getting to know a person usually happens by talking to a person, spending time with them, etc. Joe gets to know them by stalking them essentially. He watches everything they do, every place they go, and every they like. The person doesn\u2019t usually notice the stalking right away. It usually takes a couple of weeks, after Joe starts to get sloppy. Then Joe creates this fake scenario in real life where he pretends to run into this person on accident, and then gets to know them. After the encounter with Joe most of them usually grasp a memory and realize that this isn\u2019t the first time they\u2019ve seen Joe, and then they get scared. Remember I said most!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> After Joe meets the person, everything he does next depends solely on the person\u2019s reaction. If they get scared, want to call the police, or they confront Joe about what he\u2019s been doing then he usually ends up locking them in a soundproof box he has in the basement of the library, or he knocks them unconscious and tries to resolve with them when they wake up, or he just denies everything they\u2019ve said, but the people that he tends to cling to are typically highly intelligent so they won&#8217;t go for the lies.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> If they seem calm about it and they continue to interact with him as they would any other normal person, then he gets scared. Joe starts to panic, and Joe usually doesn\u2019t panic. Everything he does is methodical, logical, and well thought out. Joe is a master of control. Anything out of his control scares him. If they are calm about it then he runs, and it\u2019s only one person within the series that his ever been calm about his crazy, and she married him. Her name was Love. He, of course, couldn\u2019t take it because their marriage wasn\u2019t built on love it was built on the fact that they killed for one another and they held it over each other\u2019s heads, so they felt like they owed each other something. They also had a child, but unfortunately Joe had to leave him behind with a nice family when joe killed his mother. In Joe\u2019s defense Love did try to kill him first and he only killed her because of that, and he didn\u2019t want his son to grow up to be like him.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u00a0I find Joe\u2019s character very relatable and kind of funny to be honest. I don\u2019t know if that makes me cynical or not, but that\u2019s all for today\u2019s blog see you guys next week!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17060\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/you.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so hi everybody and as\u00a0usual I have no idea what to do for this week\u2019s blog soooo I guess I\u2019ll be doing a character analysis of Joe Goldberg from the Netflix series \u201cYou.\u201d Joe\u2019s name in real life is Penn Badgley, but that\u2019s irrelevant right now. \u00a0 Joe is a book fanatic who started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2023\/03\/06\/joe-goldberg-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Goldberg Analysis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17063,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056\/revisions\/17063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}