The Trip To Bountiful Sparknotes

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The script of The Trip to Bountiful, written by playwright Horton Foote, was a story about an elderly woman named Carrie Watts. The short yet sweet story was told of Mrs. Watts, who was homesick and simply wanted to visit her hometown of Bountiful, Texas before she passed on. A unique yet thorough way to evaluate this play, is to break it into sections and analyze each one. Aristotle, a notable Greek philosopher, deconstructed the plays into six segments. These include plot, thought, character, diction, spectacle, and song (Downs, 78). This essay will analyze each element in relation to The Trip to Bountiful. The storyline and plot of The Trip to Bountiful is written in a linear way, meaning that the story’s format is pretty straightforward. …show more content…

Thoughts in a play are the ideas or messages the author is trying to communicate. This play's theme or message stated pretty clearly about Mrs. Watts yearning to get back to the city she was born and raised in, and to escape the box of an apartment in Houston. This thought or message may apply to several peoples’ social and cultural climates in today’s world. Unfortunately, there may be several older people living with their grown children or other family members due to numerous circumstances, yet this may not be their home or location of choice. Mrs. Watts was very motivated to get out of the apartment and head to Bountiful, as she was feeling anxious and felt she just couldn’t live like that in the city in that small apartment any longer. Readers can view her point and empathize with Mrs. Watts and the whole thought of the play to a degree. Though the theme of the play wasn’t really universal, it doesn’t apply to individuals of a certain social class. This is because of a somewhat isolated instance in that period of time. Yet some people may be relying on other family members' paychecks, describing the theme of certain people's human

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