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i want summary of mothers day

Answer 1

Mother’s Day, a play by J. B.
Priestley, portraying the status of a
mother in a household. Priestly
humorously explores the story when
Mrs. Pearson, in her forties, stands
up for her rights and how her family
reacts at this. Mrs. Pearson is very
fond of her family and works day
and night to support her family
member in the best possible manner.
However, she is upset at the way she
is being treated. Nobody cares for
her or asks about her. All day long
she stays at home doing all the work.
In the evening when the kids and
her husband return she gave threw
herself in meeting their demands.
She did not want any dislikeable
thing to happen in her household yet
she craved for their attention and a
little respect. She went to her
neighbour Mrs. Fitzgerald, a fortune
teller and a magician. Older and
heavy, Mrs. Fitzgerald comes with a
plan. She proposed that they could
exchange bodies and then with
Pearson’s body, she would teach a
lesson to Pearson’s family that Mrs.
Pearson could not herself for she
was too humble and nice to do that.
Though reluctant, Mrs. Pearson
agreed to the idea and the two
exchanged their bodies. Mrs.
Pearson was still not sure and asked
Mrs. Fitzgerald if she could get her
body back. However, determined
Fitzgerald tells Pearson to not worry
and that she would handle the
matter carefully. She left for
Pearson’s home with Mrs. Pearson’s
body. She entered the home and
knew what she was to do to teach
Pearsons' a lesson so they would not
bother Mrs. Pearson in future
unnecessarily. Mrs. Pearson
(Mrs.Fitzgerald’s soul) smoked a
cigarette and was confident than
ever. A few moments later, her
daughter, Doris Pearson, entered the
house and started demanding tea
and her dress. Mrs. Pearson was sure
to make her realise that she was
Doris’ mother and not a servant. She
was stunned to see her mother
smoking and that she had not
prepared tea for her and that her
dress was not ready as well. Doris
told her mother that she was to go
out with her beau Charles Spencer
on which the mother remarked if
she could not find someone better.
This broke Doris and she left
weeping.
Then came the son, Cyril Pearson,
who is amused at his mother’s
strange behaviour. They get into an
argument. The children could not
baffle the situation. When the
mother left to fetch the stout, the
children discussed their mother’s
behaviour. Doris felt that it might
have been that mother got her head
hit. Then enters mother with a bottle
of stout and a glass half filled with it.
The children began to laugh and the
mother chided them and asked them
to behave like grown-ups. Doris then
asked her mother for her such
behaviour and if they had done
something wrong. Then Mrs.
Pearson tells them that it is actually
the children’s and her husband’s
behaviour that has disturbed her.
They always come and go without
bothering about her. They demand
duties from her and she does her
best to keep everyone happy and still
no body is bothered about her. She
remarks that while the three of them
do a job of forty hours a week with
two days as weekend, she goes on
working seven days round the clock.
She proclaimed that she would do
some work on Saturday and Sunday
only if she is thanked for everything.
When the mother scolded Doris and
Cyril duly, entered George Pearson
and is annoyed at her wife sipping
stout. He told her that he would
have supper at the club and that he
did not want tea. The wife told him
that there was no tea. He got
annoyed and the wife then said that
when he did not want tea then why
was he fighting for it. Mr. Pearson is
flabbergasted at such conduct of his
wife. The wife continues to rebuke
the husband telling him that why he
goes to club when he is a joke among
all there. He is stunned and
demanded the truth from his son.
Cyril got upset at his mother yet told
the father that it was the truth.
Then enters Mrs.Fitzgerald (actually
Mrs.Pearson). Mrs. Pearson(actually
Mrs.Fitzgerald) told her that she was
just putting everyone at place and
that the things were alright.
Mrs.Pearson(Mrs.Fitzgerald in body)
requested to have her body then and
Mrs.Pearson(Mrs.Fitzgerald in body)
on a condition that Pearson would
not go soft on her family again. They
got into their original bodies and
Mrs.Fitzgerald left. The mother and
the children and husband smiled at
each other and it was decided that
they all will have the dinner together
and play a game of rummy.