Harper Amaty Pitt: Difference between revisions

Harper Amaty Pitt (view source)

Revision as of 14:45, 14 April 2006

232 bytes added , 18 years ago

no edit summary

Kfox

149

edits

Revision as of 21:00, 9 April 2006 (view source) Jtaylor (talk \| contribs) No edit summary		Revision as of 14:45, 14 April 2006 (view source) Kfox (talk \| contribs) No edit summary Newer edit →
Line 1:		Line 1:
	Harper Pitt is Joseph (Joe) Pitt's wife. She is ~~heavily~~ addicted to [http://www.rocheusa.com/products/valium/ valium] which frequently makes her hallucinate. She has [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/Ag/Agoraphobia.html agoraphobia], and creates an imaginary friend to avoid bad situations. During ~~one of her hallucinations~~, she learns that her husband (Joe) is a homosexual. ~~She then~~ learns to manage these weaknesses she has and reshapes her life by moving ~~to San Francisco~~. Though she appears as a weak character in the beginning of the play, she ends the play as a changed person. According to Bloom, Kushner’s women are stronger than the men (with the exception of Roy Cohn), especially Harper (299).		Harper Pitt is Joseph (Joe) Pitt's wife. She is addicted to [http://www.rocheusa.com/products/valium/ valium] which frequently makes her hallucinate. She has [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/Ag/Agoraphobia.html agoraphobia], and creates an imaginary friend to avoid bad situations. Prior and Harper cross over into one another's dreams, representing gay culture on one hand and Salt Lake City Mormonism on the other (Meisner 181). During this hallucination, she learns that her husband (Joe) is a homosexual. Harper appearing as a sexually frustrated and politically detached female, learns to manage these weaknesses she has and reshapes her life by leaving Joe and moving away from New York (Meisner 178). Though she appears as a weak character in the beginning of the play, she ends the play as a changed person. According to Bloom, Kushner’s women are stronger than the men (with the exception of Roy Cohn), especially Harper (299).