Why does Max Fischer want Ms. Cross?
What is Max Fischer's Need?
I would suggest two motivations:
-to impress the boys of rushmore academy
-she fulfills the missing place his dead mother left
Neither of which were developed in the story.
Considering Max falls for a kindergarten teacher I think the Need would have most likely been the teacher fulfilling the role his dead mother played.
The last image of Max and Ms. Cross dancing fails to provide any meaning because the character need was never developed.
There is an analogy to Vietnam. A war that could not be won to Max's desire to win Ms. Cross's heart.
So perhaps there could have been something about his mom and him dancing, a picture or a memory or a line of dialog...
And perhaps when he does dance with Ms. Cross he realizes that just as in vietnam, that war can't be one, that she is not his mother and that no one will replace her.
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