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Educating Rita
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Educating Rita
Rita- a middle class hair dresser from Liverpool
Rita joins an open university course, in hope to set herself in a high class.
Rita at the beginning of the play, is an optimistic, but lacks confident, as she sees the brighter side of things, but doubts herself to do well.
Rita meets Frank, the open university tutor,and aspires to one day become successful and almost at a higher class like Frank
Frank- An old drunk, who goes to work to earn money for alcohol to escape his life.
Frank meets Rita and is slightly sexually attracted to Rita- he shows this with sexual banter.
Frank is slightly depressed, and is a very pesemistic man, but when Rita is introduced, things change, Rita makes Frank see optimistically.
Rita is invited to a small gathering at Franks,
Rita feels she was only invited to be laughed at because she is not in the same social class.
Frank and his friends are from a higher class, they would laugh at her, because her lack of class, she is the entertainment (lack of confidence).
Denny, Rita's husband, is introduced in the middle of the play, and wants him and Rita to have a baby.
Rita agrees but does not come off the pill, as she thinks she can make herself into a better social class
Rita knows that she can become something of a higher class, but does not want to ruin her chances having a baby.
Rita becomes a more literate person, and has a house mate, who she idolizes, but Rita soon realizes that being a high class isn't all as it seems
Rita realizes that living the high life in literature isn't that great, as her flatmate takes an overdose
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