Prompt: Consider how Sinatra's character here is similar to or different from his characters in earlier films, such as Anchors Away, or his wartime characters. How does his image relate to his recording persona?
Sinatra's character in The Tender Trap is the playboy persona times ten. Charlie Reader has so many women that seem to be at his beck and call; he knows this and loves it. Women bring him food, offer to clean up his apartment, even sew monograms on his shirts. They fall all over him and have no reservations about being physically intimate with him even though they are completely aware that they are just one of his many women. The character of Charlie Reader is a far cry from the socially awkward, shy, and self-conscious men like Clarence Doolittle in Anchors Away. The manner of Charlie Reader also correlates with the recording persona of Sinatra at the time; he was considered to be quite the playboy and ladies man and seemed to share many of the same personality traits as Charlie.
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