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Analysing Rita

Task E – Our answer

None. They only use pronouns. This is unusual, as on a first meeting you would expect the characters to want to know each other’s names, and then to use them to help establish their social relations. Frank tries to ascertain Rita’s name at the beginning, of course, but without success. They don’t learn one another’s names until another three pages into the script. This helps to indicate how ‘upside down’ their first meeting is.

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