Scene Three - Enid, Brod discussing their lives back home in Jamaica and Brod’s feelings of disillusionment with life in England. Viv joins them later.

Question 1

Enid ‘I work two jobs seven days a week to put a roof over your head’

Answer 1

-Shows how much Enid cares for her children and wants them to succeed in life

Question 2

Disillusionment with Life in England

Both Mai and Brod drink hopelessly
‘flat out drunk’

Answer 2

Is this a sign of disillusionment with their lives in England and the immigrant experience post Windrush not being what is was written up to be?

Question 3

Disillusionment with Life in England

Brod ‘drink my dreams’

Answer 3

Links to Mai in Scene one, ‘drinking from a bottle of stout’

Question 4

Disillusionment with Life in England

Enid says ‘Send money’

Answer 4

p.41 - repetition of ‘send money’ Enid says this which shows the occupation and obsession with sending money home.

Question 5

stage directons ‘drink’

Answer 5

p.41 - stage directions - ‘drink’repeated a lot to emphasise Enid’s drinking as well as Brod’s - perhaps a way to fill a hole and a feeling of disillusionment.