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The Importance Of Being Ernest Chapter 6 Summary

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Bruce Bechdel comes into some legal problems in this chapter because he had given a minor alcohol. One afternoon all the children went to Alison’s best friend Beth’s home by Beth’s father and step mother. They wanted Helen to be able to focus on her thesis paper. That night the children all had a great time playing games together; the boys played cards and Beth and Alison played cops. Alison says it didn’t occur to her to think about what her father was doing. Bruce in fact was away from the house. Only twenty seven years later did Alison really know what her father was up to with a police report she found. Bruce had driven to the home of David Walsh, but saw his brother Mark instead. Wondering where David was they took off for a drive to find …show more content…

Alison helps her mother go over lines and rehears her part. Alison documents the events leading up to the play and the amount of stress her mother is put under at the time. During this time many things are happening in the Bechdel’s lives such as Helen’s thesis paper and Bruce’s legal problems. Alison follows her mother’s accounts rather closely even observing her looks before the play being rung out and barely holding herself together, and in her Lady Bracknell shot she is a Victorian dominatrix. Alison loved Wilde’s references and is the first time she was old enough to run lines with her mother. She also notices hidden references to homosexuality and that Wilde was going through trials similar to her father’s. The play consumes her mother immensely with her constantly learning her lines, but also all the other lines. Alison at one point was making cucumber sandwiches for the use in the play. The afternoon before the opening Dr. Gryglewicz brought Helen a bundle of lilies which Wilde would bring an actress. What seems like chaos after the play is over the family somehow returns to the

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