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A Brief Analysis of Marsha Norman's Night Mother
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Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother illustrates a central point about the nature of what
creates drama in a play: the anticipation of an outcome. In this case, that means that
Mama, and the story's audience, learns early on of Jessie's plans. And because of learning
Jessie's plans, both Mama and the story's audience are thrust deep into the heart of this
story's question: Will Jessie really kill herself, or can Mama find a way to stop her?
What's at stake in this story is also made very clear: Jessie's going to kill herself. Can
Mama talk her out of it? The central issue that 'night, Mother delivers is that the more
reasons Mama tries to grasp to convince Jessie not to kill herself, the more she reaffirms
Jessie's belief that her life is
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