Throughout Crimes of the Heart by Beth Hanley, the three sisters, Lenny, Meg, and Babe were heavily affected by their mother’s suicide that occurred when they were children. Their mother was unable to fulfill her responsibilities as a successful mother, which left Lenny to take on a new roll for the entire family. She became a selfless individual who took care of her entire family, including her siblings and grandparents. Like a mother, Lenny never took any time for herself, which left her incomplete. As the sisters grew up without their mother, they lived with their grandparents, but soon after their grandmother passed away and granddaddy became ill. As the three sisters grew older, Meg left home to pursue her acting career and Meg married,
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Lenny, weakly: She was popular. Chick: She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash, and that was the least of it. There was that whole sordid affair with Doc Porter, leaving him a cripple. Lenny: A cripple-ho 's got a limp. Just kind of, barely a limp.
Also, Lenny has to pick up the pieces for her youngest sister, Babe, because she shot her husband, who was the most important lawyer in the town. Babe describes to her sisters about the shooting, “No, I shot him. I shot him all right. I meant to kill him. I was aiming for his heart, but I guess my hands were shaking and I—just got him in the stomach (32).” Babe did not seem remorseful, which left her sisters in shock. The play represented that Lenny became the maternal figure in her family’s life once they lost their mother and even her sister’s notice that she has become like their old …show more content…
“She quickly opens the package and removes a candle. She tries to stick the candle onto a cookie—it falls off. She sticks the candle in again, but the cookie is too hard and it crumbles. Frantically, she gets a second cookie from the jar. She strikes a match, light the candle, and begins dripping wax onto the cookie (3).” It is interesting that Lenny allows everything in her life to be left behind everyone else’s issues, but fixates on her birthday. Both her sisters and granddaddy did not remember that it was her thirtieth birthday. She is probably used to her important aspects of life being left behind and forgotten
Lenny, weakly: She was popular. Chick: She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash, and that was the least of it. There was that whole sordid affair with Doc Porter, leaving him a cripple. Lenny: A cripple-ho 's got a limp. Just kind of, barely a limp.
Also, Lenny has to pick up the pieces for her youngest sister, Babe, because she shot her husband, who was the most important lawyer in the town. Babe describes to her sisters about the shooting, “No, I shot him. I shot him all right. I meant to kill him. I was aiming for his heart, but I guess my hands were shaking and I—just got him in the stomach (32).” Babe did not seem remorseful, which left her sisters in shock. The play represented that Lenny became the maternal figure in her family’s life once they lost their mother and even her sister’s notice that she has become like their old …show more content…
“She quickly opens the package and removes a candle. She tries to stick the candle onto a cookie—it falls off. She sticks the candle in again, but the cookie is too hard and it crumbles. Frantically, she gets a second cookie from the jar. She strikes a match, light the candle, and begins dripping wax onto the cookie (3).” It is interesting that Lenny allows everything in her life to be left behind everyone else’s issues, but fixates on her birthday. Both her sisters and granddaddy did not remember that it was her thirtieth birthday. She is probably used to her important aspects of life being left behind and forgotten