Buried Child | Shelly
Along with Father Dewis, Shelly is an outsider in the play. She is Vince's girlfriend from New Jersey and has been brought along on his odyssey into the past expecting to meet his father and grandparents, who, she has been told, are a typical, happy, friendly American family. Instead, she is met by a frightening band of eccentrics who insult and degrade her and don't seem to recognize her boyfriend as their blood relation.
Although she is initially intimidated and scared of the clan, Shelly is strong-willed by nature. First she tries to fit in by helping Tilden with the...
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