Jackie, the young, independent-minded woman who drives this character study, doesn't have a problem articulating herself.
She's just an ordinary person, like everyone, but she articulates herself in that moment so completely".
"People were asking things of her that she wasn't able to articulate for herself," says Wasikowska. "Everybody wanted an explanation as to why she was doing this, and I like that she didn't feel she owed anybody one".
She was too peevish, too egocentric and lacking in self-awareness, qualities for which her dry wit and articulate presentation of herself didn't compensate.
But too often the author seems reluctant to articulate what she herself thinks of these records, or to assess how they've stood up.
And teaching her how to be articulate – and express herself in an appropriate way – will only help her be a successful, independent woman when she grows up.
In other words she can understand what is being said but cannot articulate words very well herself.
But Emily is so articulate and sure of herself that your initial impulse is to suspend doubt and applaud her nervy independence.
She decides - instinctively, and without a moment of self-doubt – that taking the acquisition offer is the wrong thing to do, but she cannot bring herself to articulate her reason to either her best friend, with whom she co-founded the magazine, or to her adoring husband.
Attractive and articulate, Haley also landed herself in the history books as the first Asian American woman to make it all the way to a Governor's mansion.
