Night Mother Critique
...not calling the police, hitting her daughter over the head with a pan, or using some other kind of physical force to keep her daughter alive. The girl seemed way too calm for a person who was about to take her own life. She seemed to have everything thought up and to be in no kind of mental instability. The reason why I might have felt the way I did about the play is because I can not relate the thought of suicide and the calmness of that thought displayed in the play to my life. The very calm tone of the play made it very hard for me to read. I was distracted because the play came across very uninteresting to me. I did not like it because for the majority of the play there was no real rising action until right at the end. I am the kind of person who likes the kinds of stories and plays that have a beginning, a climax in the middle, and nice ending that sums everything up. To me, Night Mother lacked the interesting aspects that a play needs to keep my attention. The middle of the play that I was uninterested in seemed to be mostly drug out uninteresting information. Though some of the information was important in understanding the play, most was not interesting at all and seemed not to...