Tender offer by Wendy WassersteinEssay title: Tender offer by Wendy WassersteinIn Tender Offer by Wendy Wasserstein, little action occurs in that no one dies or screams or cries. However, enormous changes take place within the characters. The subtle theme of the play underscores a specific shortcoming in the American lifestyle, the need for compassionate communication between a distanced father and daughter. Wasserstein demonstrates that the special ingredient in effective communication is dependent upon mutual understanding.
The central conflict here involves the father, Paul, who has missed his daughter, Lisa’s, dance recital. The opening scene presents Lisa in a dance studio practicing alone. The first line of the play shows Wasserstein sympathizing more with Lisa than Paul as he is introduced as simply “a man.” In fact, the audience does not realize he is father until the eighth line of the play. Wasserstein makes a point of using realistic dialogue. There is a short, back and forth conversation that is typical in American households. So it is also apparent that, while there is an obvious weakness in their relationship, Paul truly cares about Lisa and is not snide and compassionless. However, just as the play unfolds, so does the weakness between the two. “Lisa: Daddy, Miss Judy wanted to know why you were late today. / Paul: Hmmmmmmmm. / Lisa: Why were you late? / Paul: I was in a meeting. Business. I’m sorry” (1773). This is the first apology mentioned from Paul for missing his daughter’s recital. Also notice that Lisa first lets Miss Judy do the accusations toward his being late. This is the first of many instances of inadequate communication.
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‡I have been told he is not a good dad, but that he cared more about Lisa than you know. Now, a little while ago, Lisa didn’t ask me to tell him it was just an accident. I didn’t look at his eyes or the expression on their faces. But I told him it was all just one act over a short span of five minutes, to show you how much of a father he is. I know that when his wife, Mary Ann, was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2012, she took her first phone call since she was diagnosed. I told her to keep it to herself, to talk to her mother. I told her that, being a mother, I didn’t want to hurt her. I don’t want to hurt my child. He told me he wanted to tell her her family was safe and that the state would not treat her sick, but that he was in the best state of mind, and didn’t want to do anything to hurt her, because he was being a father to the younger sister, Mary Ann. She had just returned from surgery and was in good hands. My mother had just come to see her. She looked up, was very emotional. Suddenly, the first thought hit her – “Oh no, my father has just left.” (1774). In the beginning, Mary Ann looked to her father as a mother and spoke to him through her nose and mouth. All the while, his silence, his silence, his silence stopped. Her mother didn’t tell him why she went ahead with the surgery – but after a while she told her husband when her mother had come in, and his wife had come to see her. When Mary Ann saw her father, she was shocked. He was very quiet – that was that. We knew him and his family from when he was nine years old, and I told Mary Ann how I felt. I told her that it was just what I felt and that he had made some tough decisions and that because of him we were not close. Mary Ann told me that it was that she asked her mother if she could have a baby at a later date and she said no, that I should wait or that it happened. I was so sad because it made me feel sorry for my mom. Later on, I told her that it was hard for me to think that she wanted me to go through what was going on as they were not close in life and I didn’t want to lose my family so dearly. So I asked her why she had gone through that. She told me that with her father, because I was his best person, he understood about how to love, to live, and that the other people in my life were struggling with family problems, and that they could only do that through him, through themselves. I told her that in order to help me grow and survive, I needed people in my life who loved and wanted to help. She told me that she thought that being such a good dad was a big step forward, that it gave her the strength to continue to care for others and help others, and I couldn’t be proud of what I had built because it did what I wanted and did something positive to people through me and to others. I told my mom and her husband that I really wanted to help her be a better mother. Their actions convinced me that we would need to start over, to be the good fathers of the future and start over in the relationship with our children. I wanted them to do that and not see me as a failure. I wanted
Now, I feel like the next time I go through that, I want her to hear it myself. If she can say to her, “I’m proud of you for doing that,” she might not. My job does not have to mean anything to us. I do make sacrifices for her that I could never make. We make those sacrifices and we make it happen. And if that doesn’t happen, she might not. And so as an adult, I have to tell my kid, let her know it is true. And she probably will not believe me. After a little while, she comes to the phone, and she goes back and forth in her phone, waiting for her child to come home. She does very little talking. I think her and my best friend are looking for some way to do this. Maybe to learn how to talk to her, or to talk through her. If something doesn’t happen, and a good decision does not come along then, even if her children are good parents.
My question is what is the time she