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...myth. Myth frequently proclaims the dark primacy of what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness" over the light of reason, clearly one of Pinter's intentions in this play. The dead mother plays a significant role in The Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures-the old man and Teddy-with the two younger brothers taking possession of the slut-mother. That downfall is what gives peculiar pathos to the old man as he pleads...
...understand Ruth's agreeing to the family's bizarre proposition? Only psychological speculation will help. It may be that Teddy unwittingly sought out the slut-mother in marrying Ruth, and when he introduced her to his ancestral home she intuitively found it irresistible. The play's ultimate ambiguity, which centers on the question of who uses whom in the man-woman relationship, can never be resolved. At first glance, Ruth seems exploited. The old man plans to use her for cooking and cleaning up, Lenny for his stable of tarts, and Joey for lovemaking. But after...
...receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. A slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed takes 20 years, but time passes quickly-thanks to Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) and his well-tempered stars, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni...
...story, based on a popular Italian play, relishes every step of a slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed. At 17, driven by wartime necessity, Filomena meets Domenico on the job. In her 20s, he sets her up in a little flat. In her 30s, he takes her home to care for his invalid mother. In her 40s, Filomena is running his business and his house, and Domenico at 50 is still running around...