We examine families in Eliot's The Family Reunion, Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner, Sheridan's School for Scandal. Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own talks about the privacy and solitude and silence of home needed for a woman to be a writer, a creator of something other than babies. The traditional home imprisoned her creativity. Home had deceived, disappointed, abandoned and eluded him. So we will examine these plays and stories, maybe a few poems about home.
Some animals return to the wilderness when they are ready to die.
All of us want to be praised by our parents, real, fictive or transferential. We want to go out into the world, accomplish things, and then come home and be praised. Rarely does this occur. Man in his place, the nurturing, the need. Our birthplace presents us with an environment to which we adapt in early years.