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24/02/2020 Monologue Work Play: “Night Mother” Author: Marsha Norman Character: Jessie

Night Mother by Marsha Norman “(T state) Mom, I am not your child. I am what became of your child(To argue). I found an old baby picture of me(To arouse). And it was somebody else, not me(To confound). It was somebody pink and fat who never heard of sick or lonely(To inform), somebody who cried and got fed,, and reached up and got held and kicked but didn't hurt anybody, and slept whenever she wanted to, just by closing her eyes(To discover). Somebody who mainly just laid there and laughed at the colors waving around over her head and chewed on a polka-dot whale and woke up knowing some new trick nearly every day and rolled over and drooled on the sheet and felt your hand pulling my quilt back up over me(To support). That's who I started out and this is who is left. That's what this is about(To arouse). It's somebody I lost, all right, it's my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will(To disappoint). So, see, it doesn't much matter what else happens in the world or in this house, even. I'm what was worth waiting for and I didn't make it. Me...who might have made a difference to me(To please)…I’m not going to show up, so there's no reason to stay(To cause desire), except to keep you company, and that's...not reason enough because I'm not...very good company. Am I.(To disappoint)”

The play “Night Mother” published in 1983 by Marsha Norman is about Jessie and her mother. Jesse is middle-aged and lives with Mama, taking care of all the details of her mother’s life. They live in a small house on a lonely country road. Mama has isolated Jessie because of Jessie's epilepsy. When Jessie is older and finally has her disease fairly well controlled, she is too frightened to try to establish any kind of normal life outside the walls of her home and caring for her mother. This feeds her depression. In addition, It begins with Jessie calmly telling her Mama that by morning she will be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening. The moment my character Jessie had a very detailed conversation with her mother about that she wanted to commit suicide. Jesse told her mother about why she made the decision. And when Jesse arranges what needs to be taken care of, she falls into a deeper sense of helplessness. Like Jesie said: “ it doesn’t much matter what happens in the world or even in this house” “There’s no reason to stay, expect to keep you company, and that’s… not reason enough”. Jessie decides to end her life is the deep sense of loneliness and helplessness she experiences frequently. Nobody can help jesses get out of the sense of loneliness and helplessness. Even, As the plot evolves, her mother will enumerate all these disappointments and desperately provide solutions. But Jesse will have nothing, and also nothing can change her mind. Because of it’s not reason enough....