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As the plot unfolds, Lisa reveals how she has grown upset due to his father’s failure to spend some quality time with her. The main theme featured within the play is the importance of maintaining a healthy parent-child relationship despite all the day-to-day distractions such as work (Whiteson, Valerie, Horovitz 65-66).
As they both argue, other characters not present on the scene are referred to under varying circumstances to reinforce the theme. For instance, Lisa talks of her friend named Talia Robins who claims to be happier living without her father present at home. However, Lisa later depicts Talia as an unhappy bully of sorts as a result of her father’s absence.Lisa’s trophy represents the rewards of her personal conquests that she wishes her father would make time to celebrate with, while the trash bin she tosses it into expresses her disappointment in her ever-busy father. Elsewhere, Paul tells her daughter Lisa of how her friend Daria Feldman got a computer from her cruel parents as a device to preoccupy her thereby ridding them of her attention. Symbolically, the computer represents Daria’s parent’s selfishness (Whiteson, Valerie, Horovitz 65-66).
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