Oh Mary Don’t You Cry Any More Essay

The short allegory by Fay Weldon is about a small family of three, the mother Shirley and her daughters Gracey and Lisa, their life on the small island Tasmania and it is about their taste to achieve happiness.*In the beginning of the bosh we learn, that the girls Gracey and Lisa doesnt wear shoes or even novel clothes, because their mother believes, that their feet will grow better without shoes confining them, and that they shouldnt spend their money on impudent clothes, as the well-worn clothes raise it of the girls sensibly bodies.We learn that Gracey is the prettier and elder one of the ii girls.The family doesnt hand a lot of money, as the girls father has left them to start a wise life on the chief(prenominal)land. He in the long run had finally had enough when Shirley cheated on him. He had been the familys main income, as Shirley doesnt work.The father, having started a new family on the mainland, doesnt visit much nor is he magnanimous in paying alimony.When th e girls dont conduct a father figure, it is Shirleys responsibility to press the girls. Shirley wants to raise them to be optimistic and she tries to make sure, that they dont suffer from her mistakes, in regard to their pa.Shirley feels that Tasmania is paradise and that it will always protect her and the girls, barely Gracey is skeptic shes seen how hard and inhumane the pretty island can be.Graceys guitar and dance lessons, is something Shirley can scrape money together for, but the family doesnt have a freezer or a car, and their house was full of gabs and holes being left unfixed.As season goes on, Shirley gets older and so does her friends, while they have rich husbands and sophisticated lives, Shirley keeps on being free-spirited and sort of apart(p) in her glory days, where everyone was free. Shirley is and will always be a hippie.Money from the girls estranged father comes hardly a(prenominal) and far in between, Shirley still doesnt have a job, so the state steps in . Shirley consequently tells the girls, that the universe is kind and helpful, she tells them to work hard, so that they can have the opportunity to help others in the future.So Lisa starts studying hard and Gracey works hard with her dance and guitar, so that time and money isnt wasted.Shirley has a one night stand with her best friends husband, and is, after all the awkwardness has subsided, come together out of the society. Shirley tells her girls, that they should see life as love, touching and closeness, and that sex is a part of life and nonentity to be ashamed of.Gracey is a good singer and Shirley makes it a point to show her of, to everyone in Hobart, by hosting a simple Sunday brunch, which means vegetable soup, bacon and beans. Gracey suspects a pattern or perhaps more(prenominal) of a schedule, which the community seems to have made, so that they know when to show up. And only the wives came, as the men ar busy people.Gracey gets a lot of praise, but her younger si ster Lisa doesnt seem jealous, she just keeps on struggling with piano lessons, so that she will be able to fit in with Shirleys guitar and Graceys voice. The folk song they play fit Graceys voice, as they are pure, full of hope, life and love, but with an underlying hint of melancholy.Gracey is suddenly on the edge between childhood and adolescence, she is in a open state and Shirley suddenly worries about boys and whether there is anyone good enough for her daughter.Shirley also feels, that shes taught her girls to be independent to go after what they want.As autumn comes, so does a growth spurt Graceys feet and they go from a size 5 to a 7.Autumns golden leaves are expected to blow around the island, with the powerfulness of the Roaring Forties, soon.There is an end-of-term cabaret on the school, and an official from the mainland is going to there. Shirley sees it as the perfect chance for Gracey to show her talent. The four different costumes wouldnt be difficult Shirley c an just make them herself. The four different shoes, however is another story absolutely because of Graceys very new size means new shoes and new shoes mean spending money, which Shirley doesnt have.Shirley and Lisa cries, but once again it is Gracey, who is valiant and realistic, as she tries to comfort her mother and sister. Shirley gets the idea that they should work for the money, at the Hobart Marked.Shirley plays her guitar, Gracey sings and Lisa held the sheets. They play the song Oh, Mary have ont You Cry Any More. Graceys young voice doesnt have any power against the wind just as charming and miraculous as it was I the family room, just as shrill and noiseless is it on the street. Nobody can hear her, but even if they could they just crack on by, embarrassed or appalled by their weak performance.The cold hard winter winds arrives and shoots slew their already weak performance, but doing so saves Gracey by forcing the words of their sad song back into her mouth, and she finally gets to cry.Shirley being the optimistic person she is tells the girls, that they could have done it if not for the wind, but Gracey is fully aware of how incorrect her mother is.*As we read Shirley was a hippie and her way of looking at things was a microprocessor chip too optimistic, like shes being too happy so that she wont have to face things. And thats where I think we should find the theme of this story around Shirley, as she is what this story revolves around her and her daughters, not her daughters and her. I think the theme is Broken Dreams and I think that because of Shirleys entire view on the world is a dream, a dream she tries to get her daughters to see too. And I think, that possibly what is really important in this story is, that if Shirley had stopped trying to find the perfect happiness, then maybe she could have ended the story being happy with her girls.