Summer of the 17th doll key scenes
...ith issues such as ageing and the inability to accept change. It also comments on the Australian institution of mate ship and mate ship broken, illustrated by the relationship between Roo and Barney. Roo and Barney have been mates since either of them can remember and this summer all is different because Roo has a problem with Barney not walking out from the layoff with him, after Roo has a disagreement with a younger cane-cutter. I have chosen to perform Act 3 Scene 1. This scene is the conclusion of the play, in detail this Scene is between Roo and Olive after Olive has removed all the ornaments (kewpie Dolls, Paper Butterflies, Birds) Roo had given her throughout the seventeen years. Olive and Roo argue about the Kewpie Dolls that were destroyed by Barney and Roo in Act 2, Scene 2 during a rumble between Roo and Barney. Olive and Roo also express their feelings towards the seventeenth summer. Roo also proposes to Olive in which Olive denies saying ‘I want what I had before, You give it back to me you give me back what you’ve taken’ This scene is significant as it displays the true feelings Olive has for the Layoff and for Roo. It also shows how different Olive has felt about the layoff and how the Seventeenth summer has changed. In Act three Scene One, Roo and Olive argue over a relationship which is unconventional for it’s time (50s). The scene presents the theatrical style of Realism, which is shown throughout the play. This scene in particular demonstrates realist issues of relationships. Olive and Roo had been together five months a year for seventeen years, Olive finds the relationship ‘decent’ (as Olive states in Act one Scene one to Pearl) and wouldn’t have it any other way. Olive doesn’t want anything but what she has had for the past seventeen years. The statement Olive makes about Pearl, saying ‘sorry for you ‘coz she thinks you’ve never been within cooee of the real thing.’ Shows irony as it is evident that Olive hasn’t ‘been within cooee’ of the conventional relationship i.e. marriage, 12 months rather then 5. This scene gives you an idea about how the layoff has changed from the previous years. It demonstrates how Nancy’s absence and by Pearl replacing her has sparked some change, ‘It was all true, everthin’ I told her was true, an’ she didn’t see any of it.’, ‘No, no she didn’t. It was all different’ Pearl’s presence has added to the ‘change’ (amongst other factors) The scene also shows that Olive finally realizes the change that Roo, Barney and Emma (Olive’s Mum, not a main character but an important part of the play, as she is the wise woman who witnessed all seventeen summers and was the first to voice the difference in the Seventeenth summer) noticed a lot earlier. The plays 3-act structure cr...