Woman Destine in American Society in "Night Mother" by Marsha Norman
             Marsha Norman attacks the modern American society without placing it in a particular time or in an established space. She does not approach a factitious situation. She crowds us with trifles so she can conceal the huge question mark.
             The two active characters and the other ambient personages (Daddy, Ricky, Dawson...) represent just a pretext. Jessie, Thelma's daughter and, at the same time the key character, planes to kill herself. Jessie does not represent a clinical case of suicidal tendencies, in the same way that epilepsy, the illness she has, is not a psychical disease, but a neurological one.
             Jessie's suicide does not finalize an option. The preparations taking place in the course of the play push suicide in a common place, making it rather ordinary.
             Thelma, Jessie's mother, is responsible for the wrong development of her daughter's personality. At the same time she carries the responsibility of irreparably deteriorating her marriage. She has succeeded in destroying her husband's marital motivations, just as she did in protecting and, paradoxically, neglecting time her only child. The paradox that describes Thelma's condition is that she is herself a victim of the "mud" she was formed in, just as she points out. She becomes a victim of an insipid marriage in which her only shelter is cooking, which tragically ends up being just another failure in her life.
             The fact that Jessie disturbs the order of things in the few hours before her suicide and tries to become overprotective of her mother does not break the cycle or the rule of the game. The same mother-daughter and family-society relationships, the same anonymity of the lower middle class characters throw an accusing shadow over the social prototype of the family. The characters lack communication: the father does not communicate with the mother w
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