Scene Six - Evening in Mai’s bedsit. Enid is there but seems ‘distracted’ and ‘lost’. Del appears later after her mother leaves.

Question 1

Stage directions about Enid saying to Mai - ‘a soundless scream’ / ‘a howl of pain’
-Doctor’s don’t know anything about a ‘black woman soul’

Answer 1

-Stage directions about Enid - ‘a soundless scream’ / ‘a howl of pain’
- This is symbolic of the immigrant story - a feeling of pain, sadness and loss.
- Enid says she has been to the doctor but what do they know about a ‘black woman soul’.
- She is broken by her children leaving.

Question 2

Later when Enid leaves Del comes later
- Mai advises Del to go home but Del doesn’t want to go home

Answer 2

-Del doesn’t want to go home because she may feel as she is a disappointment to her mother
-Thinks that her mother Enid hates her
as she is sacked and is pregnant