Judge Sir Tom Jones complimented her performance, "The story of the song means a lot to her, I think this girl is stronger than even she realises it herself", "You didn't just sing it, you lived it".
She primly checks herself, and realises that his presence is highly damaging to the existence she has built for herself.
However, after these events, having had time to reflect coolly, Adler realises she has given herself away and plans the escape by which she gets one over on Holmes.
I think the journey that Amy goes through is that at the end she looks at herself and realises that she is worthy of love and she can modify her behaviour".
But what I liked most about this excellent performance was Bushell's awareness of the absurdity of her situation and that of humanity at large: when she urges Eilert Løvborg to kill himself "beautifully" she does so with a faint giggle and exits for her own death with the stoical smile of a woman who realises she has painted herself into an impossible corner.
"She's not a person who instinctively likes putting herself forward, but she realises she has to.
The friend who advises you to, say, stay in your relationship or leave your job may well be looking out for you; but she's inescapably looking out for herself, too, whether she realises it or not.
She will leave her family and take Edison off to a rented apartment and live with him for as long as it takes to get him (and herself too, since she realises she can afford to lose a number of middle-aged pounds) back to the old weight.
She ages through the pages until she too has a daughter, and realises she has crossed over into gianthood herself.
Moved by Claudy's struggle to kick heroin, and waking up to the sheer evil of what she is doing, Lorna realises she must save Claudy and redeem herself - she is perhaps falling in love with him.
