Circus Lady Analysis Essay Example

know the truth about his father. So she has always told him that he had abandoned her and went back to Puerco Rice.

They live in a very bad and poor neighborhood. They are poor and afraid. Especially Marie, she is afraid of John leaving her and she will be left alone, she is afraid that the welfare office will cut the welfare check and place her in a smaller room, or even a mental clinic. And at last, there is a serial rapist out in the neighborhood. External she is afraid of the rapist and is very aware of everything. But when she realizes that John is leaving she use the rapist as some kind of threat against him. But luckily he is lever enough to move on.

And hopefully start a new life. And that's why I think that she might wants to be raped in the end. Because she opens the door without even asking who it is. I think Marie is very selfish in big parts of the play. It is always "I can't live alone", "Stay here" and so on. She does not care about John. She is holding him back. Even though she knows he will get an easier and better life if he leaves for Chicago. Luckily there is a little progress for her. When John leaves, she tells him to take the money on the table.

At this point she knows that there is nothing she can do to hold him back. And she accepts it. Family, but that has not stopped him dreaming about a better life. He knows that if he works hard, it will

get paid off. He does not want to life in a pigsty, in a poor ghetto in the dirty part of New York City. He is tired of living off people. He wants to make his own way of living. That is one of the last things he tells his mother, on page 62. It shows us readers that he has bigger plans for his life. He does not want to be old alone, in some Shiite apartment like his mother.