Power Relations in Summer of the 17th Doll :: Ray Lawler

Dramatic contrast consists of a struggle for power among characters, and dramatic resolution consists of a sacking of power among them. Discuss the conflict and resolution in Summer of The seventeenth Doll in terms of the power relations in the fulfill. The play summer of the 17th doll consists of patchy conflicts, nigh informal and some out-of-door. Some of these conflicts are resolved and some not. This essay will seek some of the internal conflicts as well as some of the extraneous conflicts and elaborate on their importance to the play. There are a a couple of(prenominal) themes in the play The Summer Of the 17th Doll. Some of these themes are Maturity, grammatical gender stereo types, aging and time, ideals dreams vs. reality, loyalty and least expectation. I believe wholeness of the strongest themes in the play is dreams vs. reality. Ray Lawler gives us a very cosmic hint about what is going to happen in the play at the beginning of the play. Ray Lawler explains how t he patio has some plants evading the walls. The patio hold still fors the layoff dream and the plans symbolize reality slowly but surely creeping up on them. There are many internal conflicts in the play. One internal conflict in the play is self-complacency. This is best illustrated by Roo. Roos struggle with his pride is evident through out the play. It is so obvious that even an different(prenominal) characters in the play can see it and comment on it. An subject of this from the play is when Emma says to roo that his ?dirty lousy rotten pride? is changing the man she used to know. It is the causality for him getting in a tiff with derriere Dowd. But most of all his pride is the reason he is a broken man. His pride has made him stubborn and ignorant to help from other people. Fortunately, he is able to swallow his pride and work as a painter. His pride was the reason for his fall from the cane cutting gang and the reason he left them. In other words, we see the essentially technical person (Roo) brought down by their fatal flaw pride.One external conflict that gives us great insight to the theme of the play is among Olive and Pearl. You could say that olive represents the illusion of the Dream that is known as the layoff season, whereas Pearl symbolizes reality.