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Mother  (Kate):  blind  to  the  truth  or  guilty  of  deception?  Kate  drives  the  action  of  the  play  as  much  as  
Joe  and  his  earlier  decisions
...
 Kate  is  called  ‘Mother’  in  all  of  the  stage  directions  
and  demonstrates  the  power  of  maternal  attachment  (although,  ultimately,  she  is  revealed  to  have  put  
loyalty  to  her  husband  before  her  feeling  for  her  sons)
...
 With  Annie,  Kate  insists  that  she  sacrifice  
her  personal  life  in  order  to  remain  symbolic  of  Larry’s  supposed  continued  existence
...
 For  Kate,  it  is  
Annie’s  duty  to  leave  Chris’s  company  and  resume  her  life  of  waiting  for  Larry  to  return
...
 
 

Blind  to  truth  

‘Everything  decides  to  happen  at  the  same  time
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‘I  want  you  to  act  likes  he’s  coming  back’  cant  accept  other  possibilities
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She goes to sleep in his room and his memorial breaks in
pieces" (1
...
Turns to irrational explanations
Wants everyone around her to believe Larry’s alive to Ann : ‘Mother(emotional) you think of him’
Gets defensive and angry when people say larrys not alive ‘Don’t be so damned smart!’
‘Because certain things have to be, and certain things can never be’ in a state of complete
denial defiant cant except anything else  
 
DENIAL  
Changes  subject  when  she  doesn’t  like  it  ‘I  have  to  have  some  tea’  kate  just  informed  her  she  think  larry  is  
dead
...
’  
Mother  ‘Don’t  speak  to  me’  –  cant  fully  make  an  intellectual  argument  of  debate  doesn’t  want  to  hear  it  very  
childish    
 
 
CHRIS  CANT  MARRY  ANN  –  extent  that  everyone  around  has  to  sacrifice  their  personal  life  so  they  can  
remaina  s  symbols  that  larry  is  alive  
‘Her  nose  has  got  longer’  sees  the  girl  as  Larry’s  
‘he’s  not  going  to  marry  her’  21  
‘you  gained  a  little  weight’  manipulative  Chris  cant  have  Larry’s  girl  
Mother  defiant  as  soon  as  Chris  goes  to  mention  Larry  is  not  alive  rapidly  changes  the  coverstaion  ‘Get  me  
an  asprin,?’  pg  21  
 
 
 
Guilty  of  deception  
says  to  joe  ‘you  above  all  have  got  to  believe,  you…  ’  Makes  audience  suspicious,  hints  mother  knows  
something  we  don’t
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Go
home
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e jail is where joe should be
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Ironic keller infrocing law when hes the ones whos been breaking it
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Mother very quick to defend steve ‘I
want to ask you to never say that again’

‘What your father did had nothing to do with Larry
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‘Some things can never be’
gets very angry ‘Put that out of your head!’
When Georges arrival is announced
Mother seems to become very anxious when she here that geroge is coming
‘( speaks with warning) he’s a lawyer now, joe
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The boy is coming be smart
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’  Mother  wasn’t  smart  earlier  
 
Guilt  been  to  much  for  mother  ‘I  have  no  strength  to  think  any  more’    
 
Very  manipulative  tells  joe  to  got  to  prision  knowing  chris  wont  make  him  go  ‘you  wouldn’t  go,  he  
wouldn’t  ask  you  to  go;  
 
MOTHER  VERY  INTELIGENT  MANIPULATOR  SEES  HOW  OTHERS  THINK  
Joe  can  only  see  the  business
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Guilty  od  deception  wants  to  hide  truth  about  Larry,  when  Ann  tries  to  show  Larry’s  letter  tries  to  stops  her  
‘Annie!’  

  
Mother  doesn’t  want  to  send  joe  to  jail  ‘you’re  not  going  to  take  him’  
 
Tries  to  guilt  chris  
‘its  up  to  you  if  you  tell  him  to  stay  hell  stay
...
 
Kelelr  ‘why  me  above  all’?    
Audience  supsious  suspect  mother  knows  something  that  we  don’t  
 



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