JEAN ~ In the play, Jean is described as being fastidiously dressed in a brown suit, red tie, brown hat, and yellow shoes. I don’t want to go too far from this, but I do need to make changes to a few things to fit modern context. He will still wear a brown suit and red tie, but the shoes will be polished and black, and he will not wear a hat. His hair will be combed over to the right sharply. I want to keep him really neat and tidy because my Jean is proper and smart. He believes himself to be better than Berenger (as he admitted to Berenger), and I think that he also believes himself to be better than everyone else because he succeeds in his duties as an employer and his willpower. His neat appearance reflects his narrow-mindedness.Jean is seemingly motivated by his own philosophy on life. But he lives by rationalising everything. The flaw of this is that he rationalises everything to fit in with the social standards and expectations of the world around him, but never rationalises why anything should go against the grain. This rationalist attitude is what turns him into a rhinoceros in the end.
