I liked this play because everyone can relate to family dynamics. Everyone has a different story of how they grew up and who took care of them. Many people are faced with pressure from their elders to live up to expectations because when someone cares about you they want you to have the best. However, it is better to just let them discover who they are and make their own choices even if it is not the level of success you envisioned for them. In this play the drunken father was out of the picture, the mother was an overbearing woman who worried too much about what she wanted for her children rather than just accepting them, the daughter is physically crippled and shy which caused her family to try to push her into social and work situations rather than embracing her reserved mannerisms, and despite the son’s hardworking career path he still has selfish issues that need to be addressed. Each member of the Wingfields family had a different focus in life and it seemed to me that they all had a hard time facing reality. Laura’s introvert personality and physical state held her back from exploring and this was hard for her mother to understand since she and her son are both very extroverted. It is the human condition to work towards familiarity which is why I think the mother worked so hard to find Laura a man and career because that is what she felt was important and doesn’t understand living in solitude. Black Irish was a movie that reminds me of this short story. It was a movie with a son who hated his dad for coming home drunk all the time.
Submitted by Ryan Bent
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