Crimes Of A Heart Analysis

Crimes of a Heart was written by Beth Henley in 1979 an extraordinary tragic comedy written about three sisters who ultimately wanted to find their identity. Growing up, especially with sibling’s everyone had their certain “jobs” as a kid as well as being treated a certain way. The oldest is usually the trail child, you don’t get to do much because you’re the first baby for your parents therefore, for them anything you do it something new and difficult to handle. The second child on the other hand, is easier for parents to handle because they know from their first mistakes made with the first child, to not make those again. So ultimately you could say that things are easier but, at the same time parents now know from experience to not let you do much more than the first child. Then comes the third, the wild child as many say or they child that basically gets to do whatever they want because they the last baby for their parents and ultimately at this point they know the rules to raising a child like the back of their hand so, they basically do what they want because at this point their tired and …show more content…
She basically ran away from Mississippi to pursue her lifetime goal of becoming a Hollywood singer. Many may ask why is this making her selfish if she is just trying to pursue her dream but, what many do not realize is that she leaves the person that loves her most which is Doc Porter, and of course her family to do something that seems very unrealistic. Another thing that makes very selfish is that Doc stays behind for Meg and her family while the rest of the town cleared out because there was hurricane coming to Hazlehurst, Doc who is so in love with her stays behind and gets severely injured in the process of doing that. Clearly shows how he was truly in love with her but, she took it for granted and let it him