Kate Keller Flashcards
1
Q
Kate is the ___ centre of the play
A
Moral
2
Q
What do her delusions lead to?
A
Anxiety, supersition and suspicion
3
Q
What is Kate forced to accept?
A
Both Larry’s death and Joe’s crime
4
Q
Outwardly, what is Kate presented as?
A
A loving, simple, domesticated mother, part of the mid twentieth century american dream
5
Q
What does Kate carry the burden of?
A
Joe’s secret while he puts on a jovial public face
6
Q
What would accepting Larry’s death mean for her?
A
Joe was responsible for the deaths of the pilots, and claims that God would never allow that to be a reality
7
Q
Ways that Kate exerts matriarchal control:
A
- denial of Larry’s death
- refusal of Chris and Ann’s marriage
- not letting Anne move on from Larry
- her role as a wife
- emotional blackmail
8
Q
Anathan & Balachandran quote
A
‘adjusts herself to the criminal action of her husband’
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