Mrs+Doubtfire

=__**Anne Fine her live**__= About Anne Fine, author of the novel "Madame Doubtfire"



Anne Fine was born in Leicester, one of five girls. After graduating from Warwick University, where she read Politics and History, she began her career as a teacher. She Married in 1968, Anne spent several years living in the USA, Canada and Scotland with her husband and two daughters. She now lives in County Durham. She has won many awards including: The Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Carnegie Medal and The Children's Category of the Whitbread Award. She has also worked as Information Officer for Oxfam, where she first became interested in environmental issues. ANNE FINE HAS enjoyed huge success writing books for both adults and children. She has also picked up innumerable prizes including the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction award, the Carnegie Medal and a Smarties Prize.Her writing has been adapted for both film and TV. Madame Doubtfire has become a major feature film, Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. How would you describe yourself? I'm cheerful. I'm somewhat untidy. I bite my nails quite horribly, sometimes until they bleed. I'm good at concentrating - or perhaps it would be fairer to say that I know when I am concentrating and I know when I'm not. So, if I'm not, I give up and do something else for a while. I hate my time being wasted (Though I don't mind being lazy with myself). What kind of background do you come from? I have 4 sisters and we all grew up in a rather rickety old house my parents had bought when big, cold houses were cheap. It had a lovely walled garden. My parents were very concerned that all of us had a good education. (They'd neither of them been nearly so lucky with their own parents in this regard). So I had lots of support, and, ideal for a writer-to-be, I had everyone's library tickets, and a bedroom of my own. Quiet for reading. What kind of person were you at school? I think I was rather untidy in primary school. I can remember being quite terrified of at least two teachers. I had much more confidence by secondary school. I loved English and languages, I struggled with maths. I hated being bored - absolutely hated it. (Still do). I also hated working in groups or in pairs. I'm a loner work wise. Otherwise I think I was friendly enough. And I was bossy and gossipy. I have to admit I loved school. What are the best and worst things about writing? The loveliest thing is that you can lie in bed reading in the mornings, and I call it work because, just now and then, you'll read something that gives you a good idea for a book. The worst thing is that, from the moment you start a book, it weighs on your mind - it hovers over you, making you tense - 'til it's satisfactorily written - a year later Where are your favourite places? I love graveyards, especially overgrown ones. They're brilliant for thinking. I like riverside walks since I'm too lazy to enjoy walking uphill. I like woods. I love cool, airy Italian restaurants. I love California. My favourite place of all is my own warm bed. If you're bored, tired or fed up, what do you do to cheer yourself up? Have a bath and read in it. Take the dog out. Go to the pictures. (I do that a lot) Go to the library. Do something I never wanted to do anyway, so might as well get done while I'm bored, tired and fed up.

Mrs. Doubtfire (1987) is a novel written by Anne Fine. She is a British author best known for her children’s books. She has written a lot of books for children as well as for adults. This novel deals with daily problems that can affect and influence the members of the family, when it comes to a divorce situation. Perhaps she has experienced things around such family situations herself, as she was earlier married and got two daughters in this marriage. At the moment she is living with her partner for fifteen years, Richard, in an old stone house in Durham, England. The main person in this novel is Daniel Hilliard. This description will try to cover his physically, emotionally and psychological aspects. This novel shows us how conflicts can be sfolved with true love and understanding, instead of only the war attitude, that is often used. ** Daniel Hilliard, Mrs. Doubtfire, an out of work, voice actor, is the main figure in this novel. Although he is a man, he dresses like a woman, and behaves like this. Madame Doubtfire is a very big person, usually dressed in a pink coat, a long thick skirt and heavy black shoes. Her hair is tied up in a kind of towel. He also is changing his voice, which is not so difficult for him as an actor. In this manner he is able to get a job as a housekeeper, also with duty to help out cooking and looking after the children. Mrs. Doubtfire, alias Daniel Hilliard, regards his former wife, Miranda, as a stone woman. She is absolutely not willing to let Daniel see his children more often than every second weekend and Tuesday’s afternoons. Through his skillful acting as Mrs. Doubtfire he has now a possibility to see his children every day, as he got a job as a housekeeper at their home. He is very angry with Miranda, and saying very bad things about her in front of his children, when Miranda is not listening, he more or less wants to cut her throat off… When Miranda is around he is trying to be nice and kind in every manner so he is not loosing the job and when around the two elderly children he is using bad words and having furious attacks.
 * __ Daniel Hilliard, alias Mrs. Doubtfire, an analysis. __**

Daniel Hilliard is a very talented actor full of love and passion to his children. Driven by his love to his children, he is developing rather crazy ideas of realization. Under these circumstances, he uses his abilities to be an actor to achieve to his goals. By not being a warrior, but an actor he is reaching the possibility to spend more time with his children

This novel tells us about Daniel, Miranda and their children going through a divorce .In a desperate attempt to get into more contact with his children he is dressing like an old woman, Mrs. Doubtfire, and getting the job as housekeeper. Due to his skills as a voice actor, his acting is coming pretty natural through to his wife and even his children, at least in the beginning. Although being very emotional loaded, angry, hateful, furious and unhappy this novel shows us how at the end at least love, understanding and compromises can be a good solution.