Comment on Lou's last post

I thought your wording about the playwright's comfort with the suprise ending was interesting. It put the whole ending in another light. His willingness to throw out this ending that was completely out of left and had very little, if anything, to do with the development of his characters and more about his own feelings and opinions about women. I think if one was to look at the play through a post-colonial lens, the playwright would be seen as a colonizer, more than a creator. He is not concerned with his chracters as people, or even as representations of people, but as players whose sole purpose to act out his fantasies and whims. In his mind, these crazy women were murderous, psychopaths no matter what their character development or human decency said to the contrary. They were the Other and the playwright treated them as such.