Les Belles-Soeurs is a story of the struggle of the lower-middle class. Les Belles-Soeurs is a play about a group of women in Montreal who are just trying to get by in their mediocre lives. The women take advantage of each other, and seem to be friends only because of their proximity to each other. The women interact as though they are all just there because of their circumstance, not because they chose to be in their situations. This causes the women to act selfishly, ignoring common courtesy, only acting in self interest. The women of Les Belles-Soeurs hate their lives. They are trapped in their lives. They feel as though there is nothing for them to do and they will never escape, resorting to pettiness and fakery. The play makes it clear,
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You can’t imagine my life since I got stuck with my mother in aw. It's not that I don’t love her, the poor woman, I pity her. But she’s sick, and so temperamental. I‘ve gotta watch her like a hawk! (109)
Therese says she has to spend so much of her time looking after her mother-in-law that she must “watch her like a hawk!” By saying this Therese shows she is justifying her terrible life by saying that she must spend so much of her time watching her mother-in-law that she has no time for anything else. She also claims to be “stuck” with her mother-in-law, yet another load of blame shifted to her mother-in-law. When talking about her mother-in-law with the other women Therese says:
Therese: We had to bring her home. It’s some cross to bear, believe me! Don’t forget, that woman’s ninety-three years old. It’s like having a baby in the house. I have to dress her, undress her, wash her… (109)
Therese uses this excuse to explain away her life to the other women. Letting her pretend as though she is the victim of circumstance, which put her in her life. So, Therese uses her mother-in-law push the responsibility for her maudite vie plate away from
You can’t imagine my life since I got stuck with my mother in aw. It's not that I don’t love her, the poor woman, I pity her. But she’s sick, and so temperamental. I‘ve gotta watch her like a hawk! (109)
Therese says she has to spend so much of her time looking after her mother-in-law that she must “watch her like a hawk!” By saying this Therese shows she is justifying her terrible life by saying that she must spend so much of her time watching her mother-in-law that she has no time for anything else. She also claims to be “stuck” with her mother-in-law, yet another load of blame shifted to her mother-in-law. When talking about her mother-in-law with the other women Therese says:
Therese: We had to bring her home. It’s some cross to bear, believe me! Don’t forget, that woman’s ninety-three years old. It’s like having a baby in the house. I have to dress her, undress her, wash her… (109)
Therese uses this excuse to explain away her life to the other women. Letting her pretend as though she is the victim of circumstance, which put her in her life. So, Therese uses her mother-in-law push the responsibility for her maudite vie plate away from