Do you think Rita changes for the better or for the worse and how does this affect her relationship with Frank?

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Do you think Rita changes for the better or for the worse and how does this affect her relationship with Frank? 

        

This script discusses the development of Rita’s character. To see if her growth from an uneducated, ignorant girl to an educated sophisticated woman has altered her for the better or for the worse and how her relationship with Frank has been affected with her change in attitude towards life and education.

From the beginning of the book we see Rita’s eagerness about education and her determination to learn and achieve her goals, she refuses to accept Frank’s unwillingness to teach her. We also get a sense of joy from her character’s wild personality. Rita is very open minded and refreshing “ Y’ don’t paint picture like that just so that people can admire the brush strokes”.  

Rita’s real name is Susan but she has changed her name to Rita after the author Rita Mai Brown. Her intentions were too immediately change her name after the author, unfortunately it turned out to be the wrong type of author, an author who wrote sexual explicit books.

Rita is from the working class who is trapped in life and wants choice, she has little education and a poor job as a hairdresser and during the book we see how she tries to break free from her social class, she thinks she should have had a baby by her age because that’s what everyone expects from her: "I should have had a baby by know every one expects it"

But feels she needs to discover herself first, and believes that her family do not understand, so thinks she is different and wants to find out what exactly that difference is. In the book she says. She aspires to be educated but admits she feels like a "half-cast" she's left behind her roots but feels she can't penetrate middle-class pretentiousness.

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Rita lacks confidence in her capacity as a student, she compares herself to “proper students”. Rita would like to succeed in school and to be content but her friends and family don’t understand her and don’t take into account what she would like. School isn’t cool and so there’s no need for learning: "you’ve got to be into music, clothes an fellers…”.

Rita has always put off going back to school and pursuing her dreams, every time she feels low she’ll go off and cheer herself up and forget about it until the next time: "if you get ...

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