Form and structure:
Atmosphere: as the story line, and characters go through a great deal and there are different situations for each generation within the family. Atmosphere has to be built up for different situations. Charlotte Keatley changes the atmosphere throughout the play constantly keeping the audience intrigued. For example when Margaret dies she doesn’t die she dies in a dream like state. She uses this dream like state several times I believes that these dream scenes have a child like quality therefore it related each character back to their childhood where they all had no worried. And the audience finds peace in this.
Dialogue: the dialogue used in “my mother said I never should.” Within the play each character has an in-depth conversation with there characters in the play throughout the piece, this is so that we are able to see the relationships that each character has with one another by the use of the dialogue. For example in the final scene when Doris and Rosie are sunbathing we can see by the way the dialogue is set that they are very relaxed with one another company this again shows there relationship an example of this would be Rosie saying “stop attempting posh Doris your slip is showing” this relaxed manner of speaking demonstrates their closeness. Compare this to Doris and Margaret’s conversation when they are in the garden. “What do you mean, you don’t know? And don’t call me dear!” the conversation that Doris and Margaret have is in total contrast to that of the conversation between Doris and Rosie. You can see by the above quote the attitude that Margaret and Doris have with one another; it doesn’t represent an expected relationship between a mother and daughter. Keatley shows this again through the actual text in order for the audience to fully understand which characters have a particular bond compared to those that don’t necessarily have that.
