Meg and Petey Flashcards
1
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Simon Lesser on Meg’s character
A
‘maternal’ and an ‘intellectual cretin’
2
Q
R.F. Storch on Meg’s feelings towards Stanley
A
‘ambivalent feeling of a mother towards her son’
3
Q
Michael Billington on Petey’s final line
A
‘contains the seeds of the obstinate defiance that was to become Pinter’s defining quality as both a dramatist and a citizen’
4
Q
Pinter on Petey’s final line
A
‘one of the most important lines I’ve ever written’
5
Q
Lloyd Evans on Meg’s treatment of Stanley
A
‘Meg cossets and mothers [Stanley] like a substitute son’
6
Q
Simon Lesser on Meg’s purpose for Stanley
A
Meg ‘satisfies his desire to be infantilised’
