Two Very Short Plays: Faro Rides Again Sleeping Together

One Full Length Play 'Night Mother

1. Stage directions can be very important. What is the significance of the "queen sized bed?"

2. What is the inciting incident?

3. What is the end of the exposition?

4. What is the significance of her saying "I want to know what you're thinking?"

5. What is the play's point of attack?

6. What are some good examples of foreshadowing in the play?

7. What is a good example of reversal in the play?

8. Why does he tell her Faro is on the sofa?

9. Where exactly is the crisis and the climax?

10. What is the theme of the play?

11. Whose play is it?

12. What is the significance of the names in the play?

1. What is the inciting incident?

2. What is the significance of the opening stage directions?

3. Why does the playwright choose to start the play as he does?

4. Where is the end of the exposition? The point of attack?

5. Why does Jackson mention the "gardener?"

6. What is the significance of Jackson's last name?

7. What examples of foreshadowing are there?

8. Where are the crisis and the climax?

9. What is the theme of the play?

10. Whose play is it?

Part I: Aristotelian Analysis

1. What is the inciting incident?

2. What is the point of attack?

3. Where is the end of the exposition?

4. Any foreshadowing? Discovery? Complications? Reversals?

5. What is the significance of Jessie saying "Jesus was a suicide?"

6. What are the play's crisis, climax and denouement?

7. Does the play adhere to unity of time, place, and action?

Part II: Questions to Amplify and Aristotelian Analysis

1. Whose play is it?

2. What is the significance of the opening stage directions?

3. What is the significance of the name symbolism (Thelma, Jessie, Rickie, Cecil, Agnes, Loretta, Carlene)?

4. What are the parallels and contrasts among the characters, such as:
   • similarities between:
     • Jessie and her father,
     • Rickie and Jessie,
   • differences between:
     • Jessie and her mother
     • Mama and her husband
     • Agnes and Jessie?

5. Much mention is made of candy, clocks, and pipe cleaners. How do they function as motifs and what is their significance?

6. How do everyday events and activities mirror the deeper psychological activities such as:
   • the struggle to put on the slipcover
   • taking out the garbage
   • folding laundry
   • washing hands and attempting a manicure

7. What is the significance of the title?

8. What are the symbols and/or dramatic irony concerning the:

• gunsmoke
• Agnes' burning house
• Loretta getting a calculator
• Jessie's suicide