TRAGIC-COMIC TWIST: DAUGHTERS AS MOTHERS
TRAGIC-COMIC TWIST: DAUGHTERS AS MOTHERS

Summary/Abstract: In Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, classified as melodrama but conveying tragic features, and in Neil Simon’s comic play The Gingerbread Lady, the relationships between mothers and daughters progress in a tragic-comic twist because daughters behave as mothers and the mothers as daughters. Regarding genre and role changes the traditional genre and typical mother-daughter and family relations have been corrupted in both plays.

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