Olivia Self Identity Analysis

This particular play is about an estranged mother and her precociously initiative daughter going on a road trip stretching from Paoli to Yellowstone, both seduced by the idea of a getaway. The daughter is living with her father who is granted full custody by the court in the divorce between her father and mother. The little girl aged fifteen at the time was called Olivia and her beloved father Aaron, but he has married another wife, who is a nasty piece of work in how she treats Olivia. The little girl calls her mother Beatriz a pretty distressed and angry Cuban woman whose intuition to solve the dilemma at hand is to go on a road trip. This paper will be looking at the variables and events that influence’s Olivia’s journey to self-identity
The play ideas based on the author’s personal experiences, somewhat different and similar in a suspicious manner. The character Olivia is a fifteen-year-old girl from a background of different origin, and she had a different complexion as compared to her darker family members just like the author, this brought a different kind of treatment, and it was the fundamental origin to write the play. The book written in 1986, a time where there were no cell phones, and escaping our lives and exploring the world was possible. Olivia is a distinct aged fifteen because around this time is when a young girl is trying to answer questions like the kind of woman she would grow up to
The estrangement between her and mother by a ruling rendered by the court granting the father full custody depriving her time with her mother. They didn’t see each other from an early age, no visitation or contact not even an annual ritual between the two of them, a total banishment from her daughter’s life. The play begins with a traumatizing event at the school for Olivia, and she makes a phone call to her mother seeking emotional support and a listener's ear, seeking an ally of her distant mother. No matter how stressed out she is, Olivia doesn’t let it out when speaking to her mother. The mother leaves her husband in bed, and drives over and picks her daughter up. The instant connection between the two is remarkable despite not being in contact for quite some