Men Should Weep Flashcards
“Money disnae stretch” - Maggie
- Maggies suffering
- Unemployment
- John not helping
- No money for Jenny
“He soarted you!” - Alec
- Alec / Isa relationship
- Conflict
“Someday we’ll have wireless, son” - Maggie
- Poverty
- Unemployment
- Failed relationship
- Parental role
“She’s as guid as deid tae us” - John
- Jenny/ John
- Poverty
“My thae men! Nae word o sympathy” - Mrs Wilson
- Alec and Isa’s house falling down
“Servin durty hulkin brutes of men in a coocaddens pub”
- Maggie and Lily conflicting
- Maggie and Lily’s life’s are polar opposites
“She’s wanting tae leave hame”
- Jenny is sick of living in poverty
- lowering her social class
- living with a man she isn’t married to
“yir whore’s winnins”
- Jenny/ John
- Conflict
- Poverty
- Maggie maybe
“they dirty rotten buggers in Parliament”
- Political
- Maggie
“I’ve nae breeks”
- Edie
- shows they’re impoverished as they don’t have enough doe to buy edie scants
“I’m jist an auld nuisance takin up the room”
- Granny
- Granny is feeling sorry for herself
- fed up of moving around
“the way ye looked at yer ain sons wife”
- Conflict
- Maggie and John
- John
- Isa
“that’s Jessie business”
- Maggie and John
- Conflict
- Parental roles
“Despisin… Despisin”
- John and Alec
- Parental role
“Maggie, Maggie, she says yere tae gie back ma last weeks pension”
- Granny
“sobs helplessly” - Maggie
- Parental Roles
- John failing as a father
- Bertie
“An I like a man - (her voice breaking) - tae stand up for his wife” - Maggie
- Maggie and John
- Isa and John
- Conflict
“I canna staun ony mair o this!” - Maggie
- Poverty
- Edie
- Family failing
“I never thought…”
Suggests that Maggie has severe guilt about not taking Bertie to the hospital earlier because of how awful his condition is
If ur biding wae me yer no bidin aff me
- poverty
- selfishness from Lizzie
- conveys the lack of money that can be spent to allow Granny to stay with Lizzie
“Who earned that money?”
- Maggie / John
- Conflict
[Alec] “drunken gesture”
- Alec / Isa
- Conflict
“I hate the whale lot a you” Mag
- Conflict
