Rear Window Character Analysis: Jeff

In Rear Window James Stewart plays a photographer for Life Magazine, used to an exciting life of traveling the world to document wars and other catastrophes. He's not traveling as the movie begins though, he's immobilized in his New York City apartment with a broken leg. To keep himself from going stir crazy, he watches his neighbors across the courtyard, getting closer to them with binoculars and a telephoto lens. When visiting nurse Thelma Ritter …

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