As if Bella rehearsals are not enough, Jesse from initiation night has decided to become chummy with me. Have I mentioned that he is also an intern at the radio station? I couldn't even avoid him if I tried. I mean, yeah he’s cute and everything but so not what I need right now. If anything, he would just turn into a distraction that I do not need. In order for me to convince my dad that I’m trying to enjoy college, I need to survive Aubrey and the Bellas. In order to not be miserable, we need to keep Aubrey happy and not suck. Thus, I don’t have time for Jesse with his juice pouches and film theories.
He actually told me today that I need a “movie-cation” because I don’t like movies. I mean, come on, they’re predictable. And with his crazy impression that he needs to be in my life, he made me watch the last like two minutes of the Breakfast Club because I don’t watch the ends of movies, and he calls it the best movie ending of all time. And then…we had like an almost moment…but let’s just get beyond that. Also, what on earth is a riff-off?
With Beca’s focus to help the Bellas win at the ICCAs, she does not need any distractions, making her first intimate moment with Jesse vital to the quest plot. Beca was told to not be distracted by Treblemakers, and here she has been handed the equivalent of a damsel in distress. This quest expectation diverges from what was discussed in the course because Jesse is obviously male, and actually shares a quest goal with Beca. However, he is one of the opposite sex who Beca is attracted to, and has the potential to pull her astray. If the audience were to interpret her opposition to Jesse (using hermeneutics), it is up for discussion whether or not she is doing it for her personal quest, to leave BU for LA, or for the quest in which she promised to not become involved with him. Jesse is a parallel to Blancheflor in that Beca potentially cares about him, but does not need him as a distraction, just as Perceval did not.
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