'night, Mother

The play, ‘night Mother by Marsha Norman, had an interesting overall plotline but as a whole I did not like this story. The idea here is very interesting: a mother trying to convince her daughter not to commit suicide. However as I read the story the only parts that really appealed to me were the beginning and the end. At the start, finding out Jessie was going to commit suicide caught my interest. As I read though I became distracted by all the conversation and little things they did all night and was lost from my original ‘is she gonna do it or not’ questioning. By the end of the play was I pretty much over it and my lost question was finally answered when Jessie locked Mama out of the bedroom and killed herself. Overall I wasn’t happy with it, maybe seeing it instead of reading it would change my opinion.