What final advice does Mrs Fitzgerald give to Mrs Pearson after the changing back of personalities and why?
Mrs Fitzgerald knows Mrs Pearson’s mild and soft nature. She fears that Mrs Pearson can go soft and feel sorry for what she has done. Then everything will go waste. Therefore, she advises her to be tough with them. Only then she can make them work for themselves.
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If you were to write about these issues today what are some of the incidents, examples and problems that you would think of as relevant?
Is Drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
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?
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