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what Karen has done except saying her disappointment. After Nora dies, the truth about Nora’s feeling toward Karen is revealed.
a. Karen as a daughter
When Karen was fourteen years old, she gave birth to a baby girl outside wedlock. Then the baby was given up for adoption. Karen feels like what happened
with her in her past is a disappointment for her mother, Nora. Thus, as a daughter, she lives with guilt feelings. She did not get married and lives with her elderly mother.
She tries to be a good daughter for her mother even though her mother is cold and unfriendly to her.
INT. KAREN’S BEDROOM – NIGHT Karen is brushing Nora’s hair and tying it back in a bun. She brushes it back
hard and tight. NORA. How’s work?
Karen is surprised, like Nora seldom asks. KAREN. It’s good. There’s a new training program, to work with people who
are recuperating from chemotherapy. They asked if any of us were interested and I said yes. They’ll pay us to learn so that’s good, isn’t it?
Karen nods. A beat. KAREN CONT’D. There’s a new therapist. This man my age. He’s a
little…she searches for the right term… heavy set. And he’s graying you know.
Karen shows the area on her head.
KAREN CONT’D. He’s friendly. Everybody likes him. NORA. Watch yourself, Karen. Don’t set yourself up for falls.
Karen tries not to show her disappointment. Garcia, 2009: 14-15 Unlike a novel or a play where the settings of places are usually depicted in details so
that the readers can have their own assumptions about the settings, a screenplay has fewer details about the settings since they are already in physical forms or beings. It
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always begins with the heading INT interior or EXT exterior to indicate whether the scene happens in indoor or outdoor and the explanation about the time, at night or
at noon, to show when the scene happens. However there are directions for the actor or
actress’ gestures to clarify the message to the audiences. The dialogue between Karen and Nora above happens at night in Karen’s
bedroom, where bedroom is a usual place for mother and daughter’s bonding time.
The dialogue shows how Karen actually tries to make a good bond with Nora by brushing her mother’s hair and she is surprised when her mother is asking about her
work because it is unusual for her. However, she happily tells her mother everything and she even tells about the new guy at her work whom she just meets.
Unfortunately, her mother gives cold response and she feels disappointed but she hides it.
Karen becomes unable to express her feelings to her mother, thus, she is unable to tell her mother that she is actually missing her daughter because her mother
will not give any response every time she tries to start a conversation about her baby and she wants to be an obedient daughter. Like what happens in the kitchen when
they have breakfast together. INT. KITCHEN
– MORNING Karen is eating breakfast across from Nora. They eat in silence. Then:
KAREN. Her birthday is coming up. She’ll be thirty-seven. Nora says nothing. Garcia, 2009: 2
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