The book starts off with Mommy and Daddy sitting in the middle of the stage/ their living room. They kept on complaining that you cannot get any satisfactions these days. Then Mommy switches the topic to her buying a hat in the morning, and meeting the chairwoman of her woman’s club. Mommy was telling Daddy how they had an argument over whether the hat she just bought was in the color of beige or wheat. Mommy then returns to the store and demand an exchange in order to receive satisfaction.
Then Grandma comes into the play, carrying a bunch of very neatly wrapped boxes. These boxes foreshadow Grandma’s absence in the future. Grandma complains about how old people are always get ignored or pushed around by younger people. She complains about how the younger generation would call them deaf, think they are crazy, ignore them, or just tell the elderly to shut up.
Then Grandma talks about how she Mommy only married Daddy for the money and not really anything else, then started talking about nonsense. Mommy told Grandma to shut up and go do what old people does. Mommy try to threaten Grandma by saying that she will call the van people to take Grandma away, meaning she is going to call retirement home and get Grandma taken away, Grandma states that she doesn’t care, and she would rather be taken away, which again foreshadows that Grandma is going to leave.
Mrs. Barker, which is the chairwoman/ professional woman/ the woman that’s supposed to satisfy whatever Mommy and Daddy was looking for, showed up at the door. Daddy couldn’t find the courage to open the door, he wanted to wait a little longer, but there is no reason for them to wait, since they don’t even know what they really want.
Finally when Daddy opened the door, Mrs. Barker comes in and they have a brief conversation/ introduction. Then they went down to business. Talking about what Mrs. Barker actually came for, which no one not even Mrs. Barker herself has any idea. Everyone was really confused, it was to a point where they thought that Mrs. Barker was here for the boxes that Grandma had neatly wrapped. Which is another foreshadow of Grandma going away.
Grandma refuses to behave and told Mommy that she has hid everything, and by everything, she actually meant that she has packed everything into her boxes. So when Mrs. Barker asks for a drink of water, Mommy or Daddy couldn’t find the cup, water, kitchen, and everything else.
Grandma then explains to Mrs. Barker, or rather hints her about the situation. She told Mrs. Barker about Mommy and Daddy’s first adopted son, which was brutally murdered by Mommy and Daddy not too long ago. Mrs. Barker listens to the story and responds appropriately. Mrs. Barker still couldn’t understand the moral behind the story. But she went to find Mommy, because apparently Mommy cannot get the water to Mrs. Barker. Then the doorbell rings again.
The young, typical American Boy, with a nice body, look, and everything shows up looking for a job. Grandma saw the boy, and cannot make out why she’s got a feeling that they met before. The young man talks about his past, it is part of his interview. After Grandma listens to his sad story about him and his twin Grandma realize that this young man is the twin of the you boy that Mommy and Daddy murdered.
She then arrange the young boy to stay at the house and live with Mommy and Daddy, she told the idea to Mrs. Barker, and had her go and tell Mommy and Daddy.
While Mrs. Barker lives again to find Mommy and Daddy, Grandma left the house for good, but the young man knows that Grandma is still in the house.
When everyone returns to celebrate the satisfaction Mommy and Daddy received. They didn’t realize that Grandma is also in the scene with them, but the young man noticed. Grandma broke the fourth wall and tells the audience, that this is the end of the story.
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ReplyDeleteEven though you have an extensive summary that will be very useful when referencing it for plot recollection purposes, you need to spend more time on the other aspects of the novel beyond the superficial. Talk more about the various forms of symbolism, imagery, and other such literary techniques utilized by Albee throughout the play. Most importantly, try to analyze the play as a whole and form a theory of the work. Next, use the setting, tone, style, and the literary techniques present in the book to support your theme statement. Essentially, while you have done a nice job of summing up the plot of the play, you need to concentrate on the messages of the play. For instance, what does the distance between the chairs that Mommy and Daddy are sitting in at the beginning of the play tell the audience about their relationship? Does this particular piece of evidence relate to the meaning of the work as a whole? What do Grandma's boxes symbolize? What does the Young Man represent?
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