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fif22
fif22
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High School - 10th Grade

what is a perfect family to Jessie

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Posted by fif22 on Thursday October 18, 2007 at 6:03 PM and tagged with family, night, mother.

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  1. sagetrieb Teacher
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    Because so much of the play concerns Jesse’s inability to form an identity for herself,  the issue is what sort of family would enable her to do this. She understands herself as having failed in personal relationships, and that her epilepsy has caused this, so she would think of “perfect” in terms of a family interacting with love and understanding as if she did not have this difficulty.  Her son would not be a thief and involved with drugs, she would still be married to the man she loves and he would love her, her father would be alive, and her dog would be alive—and they would all give meaning to her life and therefore give her an identity she cannot seem to forge on her own.

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    Posted by sagetrieb on Friday October 19, 2007 at 6:10 AM