The Au Pair Man | Personality Flaws and Character Relations
Hart is a freelance writer and published author. In the following essay, she studies the personality flaws of the characters of this play and the characters’ symbiotic relationship.
Hugh Leonard’s play The Au Pair Man is about two weak people, Mrs. Rodgers and Eugene Hartigan, who find one another through a series of coincidences and discover that two vulnerable people can better protect themselves if they band together. Theirs is not a healthy relationship, but it is in their coming together that they find they are better equipped to deal with life. Like the piece of furniture—the wall unit that Mrs. Rodgers bought but forgot to pay for—that holds up the ceiling and walls of Mrs. Rodgers’s dilapidated house, the two characters lean upon one another...
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