play

I think the play might have been titled Proof because maybe the encounter with her father's ghost is proof that she might be crazy. It makes me think that because when her father is attempting to convince her that she is not crazy, he fails. I think he was trying to just make her feel better by not telling her that she might be in fact crazy. "You're sitting here. You're giving me advice. You bought me champagne." "yes." "which means..." "For you?" "Yes." "For you, Catherine, my daughter, who I love very much...It could be a bad sign." I like those lines of the play, because it reminds me of how our parents sometimes try to protect us from things that might hurt us. In this case, Robert was trying to protect his daughter by trying to convince her that she was not crazy. Robert knows that she feels depressed perhaps by the possibility that she might end up like her father, and i agree with earlier posts, that she almost resents him for it. I think in life also, we resent our parents for certain things, whether its physical traits, characteristal traits or the type of life we now live, or have lived. Wether resenting or parents is right or wrong, I don't think we can help it because we are humans but can only help cope with what we were given. Does anyone else view Hal as a selfish, suspicious character? After all the funeral hasn't even happened yet, and Hal is thinkinf of having his work published instead of mourning his death?