We're at the end of our novel study thankfully, but i still have to finish 2 more blogs preceding this one for assignments. this one is about the plot of the story. First of all, there is barely - if at all - a plot in this play. Wikipedia states in their definition of 'plot' that " One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. " I was not interested. Maybe if this was actually done in a theatre I might be somewhat interested, but just reading the play had of no interest to me. The supposed 'climax' of the story was when Rita freaks out on Frank because he was complaining that he barely knows her anymore, and they never talk, so she storms out. Pretty weak climax huh ? I would expect that to be in the rising action at least but not even near the climax. Then in the last act, you never know if the conflict is resolved, because Frank is getting shipped off to Australia, and Rita doesn't know whether she's staying in London or Going to France. Then all of a sudden she gives him a hair cut and that's the end.
Yeah.
That being said, I did not find the ending satisfying. You don't know what happens to them, you don't find out how they even feel about eachother, you never know whether or not Rita is in fact crazy, but it ended ! I don't know what kind of feedback the author got on his rough draft of this but people don't like cliff hanger endings ! It might seem like I'm just bashing this book left right and centre, but if you have actually read this, you should know just what I'm talking about and how awful this play is.