Cast members and viewers alike expressed concerns that Slade was just using Gretchen to get back in front of TV cameras, but the couple claimed that they had actually been friends for several years before they became involved.
In particular she feuded with Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Barney, who frequently insinuated that Gretchen was only with Jeff for his money and that she didn’t do anything but live off her wealthy boyfriend.
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By the time the reunion rolled around the cast was ready to confront the fallout of the conflicts on the show as well as barbs traded in the interim between Gretchen and Tamra on the internet.
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Besides her feud with Tamra and relationship with Slade, another storyline for Gretchen on the show was her struggle to regain her financial independence after Jeff’s death.
Goethe's hero changed with the author's riper experience and with his new conceptions of man's place and duties in the world, but the Gretchen tragedy was taken over into the finished poem, practically unaltered, from the earliest Faust of the Sturm and Drang.
With the aid of the vast body of Faust literature which has sprung up in recent years, and the many new documents bearing on its history above all, the so-called Urfaust, to which reference has already been made - we are able now to ascribe to their various periods the component parts of the work; it is possible to discriminate between the Sturm and Drang hero of the opening scenes and of the Gretchen tragedy - the contemporary of Gotz and Clavigo and the superimposed Faust of calmer moral and intellectual ideals - a Faust who corresponds to Hermann and Wilhelm Meister.
The lover of Gretchen had, as far as poetic continuity is concerned, disappeared with the close of the first part.