... with the plot .It is these devices that are used to make the audience feel sympathy for the two mothers. In act 1, Scene 1 and 2, we get the impression that the mother doesn't have the best of luck. Her songs about her husband make the audience feel sorry for her. She says that her husband told her she was as pretty as Marilyn Monroe, but then after she had 7 kids, and one more on the way, her husband left her, "By the time I was 25, I looked like 42, with seven hungry mouths to feed and one more nearly due, Me husband he walked out on me, a month or two ago, For a girl they say who looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe, and they go dancing." In this song she is telling the reader about all the bad luck she is having, and telling them her ...

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