Unfortunately, though, Rita is not fully part of her new world either, as evinced by her difficulties in attending -or, rather, not attending -the dinner party, and the insufficiency of her Macbeth essay. She believes that “I’m a freak” who “can’t talk to the people I live with any more.I’m an alien” (49). By scene seven, she and Denny are finally separated when she will not go off the pill and have a child she says he believes her education “ warped me. She tells Frank about going to the old pub where she promised she’d never go again, and singing along to the stupid songs. In scene six she is close to being estranged from Denny, and certainly does not feel like she fits in with him, her mother, or her old friends. Here, though, Rita is no longer fully part of her old world or fully part of her new world. She throws out the essay and says she will start again.įor Rita, these two chapters reveal her caught between two worlds, but also act as a turning point, which becomes apparent when the reader begins Act II. She tells him to be firm and not to pity her or spare her feelings. This is not what Rita wants to hear, and she demands him to change her, even if it is difficult. He says he is reluctant to do that because “What you have is already valuable” (52). She is frustrated and tells him he must teach her how she can pass the exams. He has to admit it would not pass an exam, though it is very moving. She knows where he is going with this, and pushes him to tell the truth. Frank pauses, and says it was very honest and passionate and emotional. She becomes frustrated and says she needs to know how it was. Rita asks how her Macbeth essay was, but Frank tries to get her talk more about her life.
Frank is shocked, but Rita explains that Denny justifiably feels betrayed by her. She glumly says she is going to stay with her mother, since Denny kicked her out - if she wouldn't go off the pill, then she had to leave.
They all started singing again, even her mother, and this made her come back to her lessons with Frank. At one point her mother began to cry and said they should be singing better songs, but everyone pretended she was drunk. Everyone was singing songs and she thought they were all pretending they were happy and surviving. After leaving his house she went to the pub where Denny and her mother and some others were, even after deciding she’d never go there again. She does not even fit in with her own people anymore. Sadly, Rita says she is okay in this room with him but out in the world she is a freak. He only wanted her there to amuse them, she claims.įrank becomes angry and says if she really feels that way she should leave. Frank says he wanted her to be herself, and Rita replies that she does not want to be herself, as she is stupid and thinks one day she can be like the rest of them. Annoyed, Rita says she does not want to be funny but to talk seriously with everyone and not play the court jester. She counters by asking if he dresses up and brings nice wine to dinner parties and he admits he does.įrank tells her everyone there would have been happy with who she is - ”someone who’s funny, delightful, charming…” (49). Frank smiles and says she did not buy the wrong wine and did not need to dress up or bring wine at all. She spent all day picking out clothes because none of hers seemed to work, then took the wrong bus and was late to his house, and then realized she’d bought the wrong wine. Even when she tried to explain he did not care, so she decided to go on her own.
Rita protests that she did apologize, and says Denny did not want to go and they had a huge fight. Frank tells Rita that Julia does not like when she has a party planned for eight and only six people come it does not bother him, but it did bother Julia.
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