THE THEME ANALYSIS: THE INFLUENCE OF GRANDMA KURNITZ'S
BEHAVIOR ON HER CHILDREN'S PERSONALITY IN THE DRAMA LOST IN
YONKERS BY NEIL SIMON THROUGH INTRINSIC AND PERSONALITY
PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH: BEHAVIORISM
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Universitas Darma Persada
Author
Khoiriyah, Perwirawati
Subject
808.82 Drama Analisa/Drama Analysis
Datestamp
2024-06-07 08:31:25
Abstract :
It's a story about a very disfunctional family where a mother called Grandma Kurnitz dominates her children. Grandma Kumitz believes that the children shouldn't cry. Therefore, she never lets her children cry. A harsh childhood when she was in Germany made her be a strong, hard, and cold woman. She has never cried to being a widow with six children in foreign country (in Yonkers, New York) and when two of her children died. This is why she tries to teach her children, to be strong in their lives. She was brought up strictly and brought her children up in such a way that there is something wrong with all of them. Her coldness and cruelty have crippled her children. Eddie, her first son becomes a weak man and dare not to rebel against her strict mother,Louie becomes a gangster because of mistake in interpreting a bravery he calls "moxie, Gertrude suffers from a nervous speech impediment, and the childlike Bella has never grown up and wants nothing more than to have someone to hold and love that her mother cannot give. As living with his mother, Eddie suffered because of his mother's strict behavior towards him. It is why Eddie never lets his sons visit their grandmother after marrying a kind woman, Evelyn. But in the early 1940s in Yonkers, New York when the country is at war, Eddie has to leave his sons, Jay and Arty with their strict grandmother because Eddie fell heavily in debt paying his dying wife's hospital bills and now he tries to pay off his debt by going around selling scrap iron in the South. In their grandmother's house, the boys see how their grandmother treats them and their aunt Bella strictly. The boys have to work in their grandmother's candy store and have to get up and eat bad soup when they are sick. They also have to suffer when they make mistakes and they are not allowed to cry. The only way to contact their father is through letters. However, ten months living with their grandmother, they learned how to be strong and responsible and finally, they begin to understand about their grandmother.
It's a story about a very disfunctional family where a mother called Grandma Kurnitz dominates her children. Grandma Kumitz believes that the children shouldn't cry. Therefore, she never lets her children cry. A harsh childhood when she was in Germany made her be a strong, hard, and cold woman. She has never cried to being a widow with six children in foreign country (in Yonkers, New York) and when two of her children died. This is why she tries to teach her children, to be strong in their lives. She was brought up strictly and brought her children up in such a way that there is something wrong with all of them. Her coldness and cruelty have crippled her children. Eddie, her first son becomes a weak man and dare not to rebel against her strict mother,Louie becomes a gangster because of mistake in interpreting a bravery he calls "moxie, Gertrude suffers from a nervous speech impediment, and the childlike Bella has never grown up and wants nothing more than to have someone to hold and love that her mother cannot give. As living with his mother, Eddie suffered because of his mother's strict behavior towards him. It is why Eddie never lets his sons visit their grandmother after marrying a kind woman, Evelyn. But in the early 1940s in Yonkers, New York when the country is at war, Eddie has to leave his sons, Jay and Arty with their strict grandmother because Eddie fell heavily in debt paying his dying wife's hospital bills and now he tries to pay off his debt by going around selling scrap iron in the South. In their grandmother's house, the boys see how their grandmother treats them and their aunt Bella strictly. The boys have to work in their grandmother's candy store and have to get up and eat bad soup when they are sick. They also have to suffer when they make mistakes and they are not allowed to cry. The only way to contact their father is through letters. However, ten months living with their grandmother, they learned how to be strong and responsible and finally, they begin to understand about their grandmother.
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