Analysis Of The Rez Sisters

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They Won Bingo but it was not Money
The Rez Sisters is a Native play written by Tomson Highway. Highway has written this play about seven sisters on a reserve trying to win the bingo to better their lives. The Rez Sisters see the biggest bingo in the world as a way to fulfill both their needs and wants, even though it is all the way in Toronto. Although Marie-Adele and Annie Cook both wanted to win the biggest bingo, their reasons for wanting to win was only to conclude their happiness. In the end they both found a different type of fulfillment they needed was not winning the bingo.
Marie-Adele and Annie Cook both want to have a better life for themselves. They want more opportunities far beyond that of living on a reserve. Marie-Adele wants …show more content…

She is dying of cancer and is scared to leave her family and scared that her children will be separated from each other when she passes because Eugene may not be able to take care of them by himself without her help. “I don’t want them kids to be split up” (Highway 79). She wanted to move to an island with her family to try to escape her death. She also wanted the money to make sure Eugene and the kids could have a good life and so he would not have to travel to Espanola every day to work at the paper mill. Marie-Adele’s dream of winning the bingo was centred on her family and their well-being because of her …show more content…

She was more selfish when it came to the reasons why see wanted to win bingo. Annie wanted to win bingo so that she could go to “every record store in Toronto” (Highway 35) and buy a bunch of records, buy a huge record player and all the records of Patsy Cline. She also wanted to travel to Sudbury to visit her daughter Ellen and her husband Raymond who she felt was the most incredible man because he was not Native. He was a white man and to her he was perfect. She also wanted to become a singer and perform in bars in Toronto. Annie sees winning the bingo as her only opportunity to have something going for her life because she has no job, no husband, and a daughter all the way in Sudbury. She does not have anything or anyone to help her pursuit her dreams. Annie is also an alcoholic so in her eyes she sees Toronto as a way to get away from

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