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Changes in Frank and Rita's Relationship
Referring closely to Scenes 6 & 7 in Act 2, discuss the changes seen in
Frank and Rita's relationship.
In this essay I will be referring closely to Scenes 6 & 7 in Act 2. I
will be discussing the changes in Frank’s and Rita’s relationship, and
comparing their relationship “now” as to what it used to be in the
beginning of the play. Rita & Frank are the two main or, only
characters in the play. This is a powerful and smart way to let the
audience or reader to get to know our two characters, their feelings,
emotions and thoughts. The audience can see and tell the difference in
the characters social status straight away. Frank is a professor in a
university, teaching English literature – in his late forties. He is
an alcoholic – loves to drink, he has a girlfriend, but this
relationship that he’s in is going like all others; failure. He is the
type of person that drinks in order to forget his troubles and worries
– drink makes him happy, even though it is killing him and his
relationship just as well as his career:
“Yes, I probably shall go to the pub afterwards. I shall need to go to
the pub afterwards. I shall need to wash away the memory of some silly
woman’s attempts to get into the mind of Henry James or whoever it is
we’re supposed to study on this course…Oh God, why did I take this on?
…Yes I suppose I did take it on to pay for the drink”
This is a conversation that Frank has with his girlfriend over the
phone, it immediately goes to prove that he doesn’t really care about
his career and the only thing that is on his mind is alcohol.
Rita on the other hand is a twenty-six year old, working class woman
who wants to get an education, and by doing that she believes that she
is going to “discover” herself. She is in a relationship; she’s been
living with her partner for six years. She also wants to learn how to
speak “proper” English.
In the beginning of the play Rita and Frank are getting to know each
other, and they have nothing more than a “teacher-student”
relationship, although throughout the play we can see that they get to
know each other better, and they gain more respect for each other.
Everything starts to change when Rita goes off to summer school. When
she comes back from summer school Frank is surprised by her appearance
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