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Exits Exist

            In today's society, the relationship between mother and child varies in each case. Some children get along well with their mothers while others never receive the affection they need. In the play Exits Exist by Paul M. Kelly, The image of the mother that is presented is controversial. The characters view their relationship with their mother very differently.
             While she is portrayed as a mother who neglected her son Gabriel and blaming him for the father's death, she is also portrayed as a good mother by her daughter Diana, who was just under much stress after the father's death. Her image is sustained throughout the play when Gabriel reveals to the audience how he was treated by his mother. " I was to blame. It was all my fault- (Act I, Scene 2). .
             She is portrayed as a terrible mother when Gabriel says that he was blamed in front of family and friends. " when we were all in the backyard yelling and screaming at me in front of everybody- (Act I, Scene 2). Gabriel never forgot that the reason he was blamed was because his father was rushing to get to his graduation. Whenever Gabriel speaks of his mother, he speaks with a tone of hate. He remembers how he was treated after his father's death and hates the fact that he was blamed for something that he couldn't control. He was forced to grow up without the affection of a mother, instead he grew up with guilt over his father's death and never received an apology.
             Diana, however, speaks with a more sympathetic tone whenever her mother is brought up in conversation. It is revealed to the audience that her mother was very sick and suffered much throughout her sickness and the one thing she wanted to do before she died was to apologize to Gabriel for the blame of his father's death.
             Throughout the play, the mother is never shown and is not there to defend herself from the views of either of her children. The mother being presented through the views of her children and their memory of growing up with her makes the story more dramatic since the reader does not know which of the characters are over exaggerating.


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