Rita has apparently changed. She has changed her job, her friends, her entire environment... She has even changed her name AGAIN.
By the end of scene 5, she lets Frank know she has changed her name because "Rita" was only "pretencious crap" and she got to realise that. What, in my opinion and in Frank's too, she doesn't seem to see is that her self is not only in her name. Frank calls after her different names to try to know her new name, though she doesn't answer.
What he wants to make her see, is that even if she changes her name over and over again, she will still be the original "Rita", or actually Susan... He is a bit worried she has ended up loosing the real person who was eager to learn, to become more educated so as to be better.
I think that along the process of learning, which Rita also saw as a way of self-discovery, somehow she found herself with new interests and lost track of her real goal: LEARN. She has learned a lot about life, though, perhaps in a way that Franks envies.
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Hi Lau,
I agree with you in that her self is not only her name, and this is also a symbol of her looking after shallow things to change her identity when the way to do that is a different one.
I don´t know if her ultimate goal was just to learn, but to find herself and to be happy with herself, as well. Don´t you think?
kisses,
Lu
Hi Lu,
I agree with what you say about Rita. She does have some superficial attitude towards how and what she has been learning...
For her, learning ment changing some of her relations and changing her views of the world... But apparently she is happy, or happier, now. So, apparently, learning this way has worked for her.
Bye!
Lau
Here I am!!!
Loved the simile of the chameleon, which adjusts to its environment without caring about its inside and true identity... Had never thought of Rita in that way!
It seems Rita has always believed "educated people" are happy because they live in a certain way, and she is desperately trying to reach that happiness by working hard her to "live like them".
The last scenes will reveal some surprises, though... and I'm eager to read what you've thought about them!
Cheers,
Gladys
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