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A Lie Of The Mind: A Play in Three Acts
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Act IIIChapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, mental illness, cursing, illness or death, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and domestic violence.
Act III, Scene 1 Summary
Lorraine is sick and lying in Jake’s bed, and Sally tries to feed her some of the broccoli soup. Lorraine swats the spoon away and accuses Sally of wanting Jake to leave. Lorraine laments Jake leaving her; she knows Jake is going to see Beth and worries that Jake will end up back in prison. Sally thinks Frankie might bring Jake back, but Lorraine doubts Sally’s concern. She thinks Sally will not be happy unless Jake is killed on the road. Lorraine remembers a police officer telling her that Sally’s father was dead, and Sally says she and Jake were with him in Mexico when he died. Lorraine emphasizes that their father left her, but Sally tells her about meeting him in Mexico. Sally and Jake found their father in a trailer just over the American border, and he had pictures of them as children on his walls alongside celebrities. Lorraine says her desire to get revenge on him fuels her, even though he is dead, and she tells Sally that she often wondered what happened to him after he left her. Lorraine condemns love and tells Sally that people should resist the good feelings of love to avoid the bad feeling of losing it.
