k, "No, you listen!" I think Willy Russell would have done this because he would have wanted to show Shirley having some vitality. Although Shirley is a bored middle-aged housewife she has a sense of humour.
             "Oh my god it's! It's six o'clock and his tea isn't ready. Will the government collapse?"
             It also shows us how into his routine Joe is, that the government would collapse if he didn't get his tea. The quote is used as a metaphor to show Joe does not like change.
             In another flashback we are able to view the changes that occurred to Shirley since she was a teenager. As a teenager Shirley was rebellious, an individual, speaking her own mind and was Shirley Valentine. Although, Shirley was bored and discouraged about School also envious of her archenemy Marjorie Majors. Young Shirley seemed confident but only on the surface she smoked and wore her...
             "School skirt so high you would have thought it was a serviett
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