Reading Response 1 Week 5

This is a response to The Pain Of Pink Evenings by Rosemary Moore. When I first started this play, I noticed that it was straightforward, until i reread it and analyzed it and noticed the underlying complexity of it and thats when it began to amaze me. Tracie had a dream about her deceased husband Henry who told her to let him go, or more precisely throw something away that he gave her. At first thought, I was confused about the transition from talking about her dead husband to her father. Yet, even with being confused in this play the part that I'd like to extract from this reading is the complexity that Moore was using on this piece. Being able to use this in one of my work's to having multiple meanings could help me with the concept we were talking about in class: the main topic and the discovered topic which is unearthed after realizing it. Looking at how Moore played with some of the words surprised (well more brought out ideas to write) me ."plateface, pink evenings, scruffy boat, turquoise veins" this imagery and how the words seem to just mush together shows how the English language can be used in different ways. " The torso finally sank, leaving the two arms begging the sky". This sentence actually had me empathizing with an inanimate object or rather the memory it contains. Even if the writer wasn't going for infused meanings in this work, its apparent with just this sentence the affection she has for her husband.