{"id":578,"date":"2017-05-07T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=578"},"modified":"2017-05-07T23:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T03:33:02","slug":"momos-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/momos-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Momo&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me and seemingly for the characters on stage, Momo&#8217;s message was the most touching moment of the play. She writes\u00a0very genuinely, &#8220;Drink less than I did. Go to church. Be good to everyone you love. I love you more than you&#8217;ll ever know&#8221; (123). After Deirdre reads the message, everyone is quietly crying, appreciating the letter. However, by the next page, the family is already disobeying the Momo&#8217;s wishes. Erik goes for another beer even though he is noticeably drunk. Deirdre remarks nastily, &#8220;in sickness and health&#8221; (124) to Brigid after Brigid tells them that Richard is trying to get them to like him. These responses by Deirdre and Erik, two characters quite close to Momo&#8217;s age, are\u00a0very interesting. Perhaps even though one can agree\u00a0that nothing in life is worth getting so worked up about, one still can&#8217;t embrace this philosophy. Maybe the different social pressures operating in this play (class consciousness, marriage etc.) \u00a0are simply more powerful than any message that Momo can provide them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me and seemingly for the characters on stage, Momo&#8217;s message was the most touching moment of the play. She writes\u00a0very genuinely, &#8220;Drink less than I did. Go to church. Be good to everyone you love. I love you more than you&#8217;ll ever know&#8221; (123). After Deirdre reads the message, everyone is quietly crying, appreciating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen-haram","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}