A Brief Analysis of Marsha Norman's Night Mother

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…who fails to set up the issue at the core of a story in a way that it connects with an audience risks assembling words and images that create characters and events to no particular dramatic purpose. By making what's at stake in a story clear and direct, the author frees themselves to begin the real task: Bringing an audience fully into and involved with the world a story's characters inhabit and seek to shape.