Daisy's First Impression of Teddy and The Appraisal Progression

    When Daisy meets Teddy Price, his offer to help Daisy create real "songs" immediately strikes a sensitive nerve.  For Daisy, the opportunity to work with him under that guise feels dismissive, yet another reminder of how her work was not good enough or incomplete. Triggering her to remember all the times that the people she cared about treated her work as something childish and of not real substance. According to the Appraisal Theory, this initial reaction reflects her primary appraisal; where she is quickly and instinctively threaten by someone else opinion of her music, making her respond in defensiveness of the confidence she is trying to protect. As a result, she immediate rejects his offer on the spot and walks away refusing to listen further.     

    After sometime, there is a progression of her emotions surrounding the conversation. As the appraisal theory suggests, she begins enter secondary appraisals and reflects on her response to the offer. She beings to evaluate the potential of working with a popular music producer and the significant step that it can be for her goals. Daisy reconsiders Teddys offer, with a recognition of how the help could open doors for her and she could create from a the place of self-security that she is moving into.