These last two scenes show these ideas that after all we have said and done we come back to our roots. we make a distiction of what is worth it from what is not.. It also makes out the concept of "choice", to be able to make choices in life. The importance of taking some kind of responsability when making choices and if we feel we were wrong , we face it and we go on with our life.
Scene six starts with Frank calling to Rita`s house to let her know that he has entered her for the examination.
So in scene seven Rita goes to Frank`s place to greet him for Christmas and finds him packing all his stuff to go Australia. H e tells her that the university has decided no to dismiss him but to send him to Australia.
The interesting part in this scene arises when Rita tells Frank that she has come to see him and tell him she he is really a good teacher. She tells him that after all she has told him she realizes that he has influenced her for the better. She also tells him that she has chosen herself in spite of all her obstacles and that it is her and only her the one who is going to start a new life. She is not sure if she is going to go to France with Tyson and his group or if she is going to stay with her mum or even to have a baby,she is not sure of anything but she. It is in this moment when Frank gives her a dress that he has bought for her. he makes it clear that he has bought the dress thinking in the woman more than in the educated. Here Frank`s feelings are seen overtly without any kind of restriction. And Rita responds to this by giving him a hair cut. From my point of view Rita`s hair cut could embody Frank`s new life. In fact when she says that she is going to take years off Frank she may mean than life is going to give him a second chance. It is the hair cut and the trip to Australia a possibility to make a new fresh start. However, I don`t think Rita will be part of it. I think that from the beginning Rita has had very clear objectives. She has been able to separate the man from the teacher. On the contrary, It is Frank the one who gets confused. Well, it is at this right moment that he has the opprtunity to start again.
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I find your typo really worth discussing, Lucía! :-P
You've written: Rita tells Frank that she has come to see him and tell him she he is really a good teacher... Perhaps you've been thinking Rita has actually been educating Frank all throughout?!?
I also like your interpretation of what a haircut might mean for Frank... One final question: what does this choice by Rita (giving Frank a haircut) tell us about her learning through the play? What's happened to the "old Rita"-"new Rita" conflict?
See you around,
Gladys
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