A Long Christmas Ride Home Play Analysis

For starters, I really liked the play. It was not boring or hard to read. When I first heard the title “A Long Christmas Ride Home,” I am not going to lie, but, I thought it was going to be a cheesy, holiday play and I was completely wrong. For some reason, I loved how dark and twisted it turned out to be. The events that occur really come out of nowhere and that grabbed my eye. However, the events that occur, sadly, are realistic and are problems that families face daily. As a result, we have a play with themes such as sexuality, effects of an unhealthy marriage, violence and abuse.

I think Paula Vogel did an excellent job in stating which character was directly speaking especially in the beginning when it is just mainly the man and woman
It sucks. It does not suck in the way that it was badly written or that it is a terrible ending. It sucks in the way that it is realistic. We see this dysfunctional family about to die and for one moment you think “Okay, they’re about to die. No, wait, they’re alive and the mother and father are about to have this important moment and have a happy ending and turn their marriage and home life around and…no.” The man thinks about his mistress after all of that fear and distress and you want to hate him for it, and you can, but at the same time you can not because that is life. We know this man is no longer in love with the woman. He has had multiple affairs and is currently in love with a woman named Sheila and after an emotional experience like that you want to see the one person you love. Sadly, it is not the mother of his children, it is Sheila. This is so realistic because if you think about it nothing has changed. Yes, they escaped death but nothing changes in a sense of their marriage, or character, or the situation. They went right back to the people they were before they started sliding on ice, as they