Female Characters : 5. Tillie is a bright, sensitive, resilient young girl who loves science. She works with marigold seeds exposed to varying amounts of radiation. She plants the seeds and observes the effects. Nanny is a non-speaking role. Janice Vickery is another student finalist in the science fair. She appears only in Act II, Scene 2 to deliver an obnoxious monologue about how she skinned a cat and reassembled its bones into a skeleton that she will donate to the science department.
The playwright provides extensive notes about the details of the setting, but throughout the play, the action occurs mainly in the unsightly, cluttered living room of the home that Beatrice shares with her two daughters and her most recent boarder Nanny. In Act II, the stage for the science fair presentations is also a setting. References to things like mimeographed instructions and one home telephone suggest that this play is set in the s—s.
This play starts with two monologues. The first one by Tillie, a young schoolgirl, begins as a recording of her voice that she continues in speech. She reflects on the phenomenon of the atom. What a beautiful word. The audience learns that Mr. When Tillie begs her mother to be allowed to go to school that day because she is so excited to see Mr.
Beatrice informs Tillie that she will spend the day at home cleaning up after her rabbit. When Tillie pleads with her again, Beatrice tells her to shut up or she will chloroform the animal. Beatrice earns extra money by working as a caretaker in her own home for elderly people.
Beatrice comes across as a mean, hardened character until she is comforting Ruth after a nightmare in the first act. When Ruth bursts in after school one day exclaiming with pride that Tillie is a finalist in the science fair and Beatrice learns that, as her mother, she is expected to appear on stage with Tillie, Beatrice is not pleased. She insists, demands, pleads, and finally resorts to shaming her mother by calling her the old hurtful name.
She pushes Ruth out the door and removes her hat and gloves in defeat. They will explore questions such as:. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Younger sister Tillie is a bright high-school student with a talent for science, but her vicious mother, hating everyone who's better off in life than she is, seeks to crush Tillie's success.
A film adaptation was released in , directed by Paul Newman , starring his wife Joanne Woodward as Beatrice. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account.
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