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Mother’s Day
Contrast the two ladies: Mrs Pearson and Mrs Fitzgerald.
Mrs Pearson and Mrs Fitzgerald are two contrasting characters.THis Pearson is a ‘pleasant but worried looking woman’. She is in her forties. Mrs Fitzgerald is older and heavier. Mrs Pearson is timid and confused. Mrs Fitzgerald is a strong and dominating character. The two have sharply contrasting voices. Mrs Pearson speaks in a light voice while Mrs Fitzgerald speaks in a deep one.
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What picture of Mrs Pearson do you form in the opening of the play and why?
How does Mrs Fitzgerald tell Mrs Pearson’s fortune?
Why doesn’t Mrs Pearson become ‘the boss’ of her family as Mrs Fitzgerald advises her to be?
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What is Mrs Fitzgerald’s advice to Mrs Pearson?
What does Mrs Fitzgerald find the cause of Mrs Pearson’s misery?
How do Mrs Pearson and Mrs Fitzgerald exchange their personalities?
How does Mrs Pearson start behaving after the exchange of personalities? Name the changes that surprise her children and husband.
Describe Doris. How does she trouble her mother?
How does Mrs Pearson (with Mrs Fitzgerald’s personality) make fun of Charlie Spence?
How does Mrs Pearson (assuming the personality of Mrs Fitzgerald) set Doris right?
Who is Cyril? What is his attitude towards his mother?
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