Educating Rita Questions Summary Essay Example

she thinks that she one day will be like the rest of them” .

It is evident here that Rita sees herself as an alien and when she went to the pub instead of the fancy party she realized that she didn’t belong there either. Rita was in-between two social classes, who cultures, and all she wanted was to find herself and fit in. Rita thought that Frank invited her to his party to have her there as some sort of entertainment and said “I don’t want to be funny. I wanna talk seriously like the rest of you.

I don’t wanna spend the night takin’ the piss, comin’ on with the funnies because that’s the only way I can get into the conversation. I didn’t want to come to your house just to play the court jester”. Rita believes that culture is a way of living. By the end of the first act, Rita wants to give up everything that Frank finds so refreshing about her, her spontaneity and her enthusiasm, and become a scholar, just like him. Her significant change during the summer reinforces the gap between her and Frank.

Frank sees that Rita’s education has turned her into a snob and that it has made her turn away from her roots to such an extent that she is now a stranger. She is no longer a half-cast but what she wanted to be, her own woman, in control of her life. “One must work and dare if one really wants to live. ” (Vincent van Gogh, Letters of Vincent van Gogh, 2008, p137). It might not be the sort of woman Frank wanted her to

be although it is the sort of woman Rita always wanted to be.