Beth Henley
Title: Beth Henley
Category: Arts & Humanities | Words: 498 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Beth Henley
Henley turns a spotlight into the shadow and gives central importance to the
dilemmas of women, to their conflicts and suffering within the family and to
their questions about personal identity and the meaning of life. Not only does
she focus on seldom-dramatized dimensions of family relations such as the bonds
between mother and daughter and between sisters, but also she recharts from a
woman's vantage point such well-explored dramatic territory as marriage. Most
significant …
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showed last 75 words of 498 total…tells sick jokes, but because she refuses to tell jokes at all. Her characters always stick to the unvarnished truth, at any price, never holding back a singly gory detail. And the truth-when captured like lightening in a bottle- is far funnier than any invented wisecracks." (Dellasega, 251) Mary Dellasega writes that Henley's comedy is based on "empathetic understanding of her characters' desperation." (251)
Whether she intends to or not, Beth Henley does change the world.
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