In the mother's monologue about May's pacing, the mother brings up that she was stuck in the house when other girls her age were playing. I think that she had to take care of her mother from a young age, so she was always stuck in the house doing nothing but the routine of taking care of her and pacing. She has been trapped in the house and with her mother in body and mind. She knows exactly the age of her mother, but she asks her mother not knowing herself how old she is. Showing that she has forgotten to think of herself she only thinks of her mother.

In the play Footfalls there are a lot of patterns, for example when May is talking about what she's going to do for V she pauses after saying each action as if she is looking for reassurance that what she is saying is right. All of the actions have question marks, the only one that is not a question is "Again." All of the pulses are symbols of repetition. She is saying. Pausing. Doing. over and over again. This might be her reliving how she would take care of her when she was alive, stuck in the pattern that she lived from day to day.

In the play Footfalls there are a lot of patterns, for example when May is talking about what she's going to do for V she pauses after saying each action as if she is looking for reassurance that what she is saying is right. All of the actions have question marks, the only one that is not a question is "Again." All of the pulses are symbols of repetition. She is saying. Pausing. Doing. over and over again. This might be her reliving how she would take care of her when she was alive, stuck in the pattern that she lived from day to day.

In the mother's monologue about May's pacing, the mother brings up that she was stuck in the house when other girls her age were playing. I think that she had to take care of her mother from a young age, so she was always stuck in the house doing nothing but the routine of taking care of her and pacing. She has been trapped in the house and with her mother in body and mind. She knows exactly the age of her mother, but she asks her mother not knowing herself how old she is. Showing that she has forgotten to think of herself she only thinks of her mother