Brighton Beach Act 2

Act 2 was not what I had initially expected. At the end of act 1 I said that maybe some of the family`s problems would be solved, but that hasn’t really happened. The major theme in this act is family. Despite all of the problems they faced from act 1 everyone really stopped caring about those problems. Instead they all realized that being a big happy family was more important. There were multiple conflicts in act 2 such as Blanche and Kate getting into arguments. Also a problem is the decline of Jacks health. This is bad because he need to be healthy in order for the family to be supported from his income. An example of them not really caring about the problems would be when at the end Jack`s cousins were coming to America. Where he would usually be more frustrated thinking about ways to get more income to support more people coming into the house, Jack was happy for them to come. All of this shows how the entire family started coming together at the end and didn’t care for their financial problems. Their main concern was that everyone was together and happy. That is why I believe that family is the main theme of the 2^nd act. In the end everyone was happy.