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Mother’s Day
What change do you notice in Mrs Pearson’s husband and her children at the end of the play? Does Mrs Pearson succeed in her mission?
In the end it is the ‘Mother’s Day.’ Mrs Pearson carries the day. She succeeds in setting all the members of her family right. There is a total change in them. They are no more haughty and overbearing. They are now ready to share the household work with her. The children speak politely and meekly. They agree to get supper ready while she enjoys conversing with their dad.
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Read the play out in parts. Enact the play on a suitable occasion.
Discuss in groups, plays or films with a strong message of social reform that you have watched.
Contrast the two ladies: Mrs Pearson and Mrs Fitzgerald.
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?
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