| 1 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: |
| 2 | ** The play acts as one to real-life murderer Ruth Snyder. Unrepentant murderer who married a man, then tried to kill him to collect on his life-insurance policy? Or a poor woman pressured into a bad relationship who had no way out? |
| 3 | ** Her lover, Richard Roe- was the affidavit containing his testimony truly voluntary? Did he mean to condemn her, seeing her as a murderess who went too far? Or was he blackmailed into giving it by prosecutors trumping up charges to extradite him, and had no real ill will towards her at all? |
| 4 | ** Her husband, George H. Jones is treated somewhat sympathetically by the play. Is he InnocentlyInsensitive? Or does he purposefully use his money and power to bully a disadvantaged woman who's repulsed by his touch into marrying him? |
| 5 | * ValuesDissonance: |
| 6 | ** The playwright does not seem to care that much about blacks. During her trial, the Young Woman accuses "two dark-looking men" of killing her husband, when historically blacks have been lynched because of such accusations from white women. Her lover also speaks fondly of white women, saying that they're a relief after being around nothing but Indians. The script also refers to its one black character, a convict in the Woman's cellblock, as "the negro." |
| 7 | ** The play's one homosexual character is a pedophile, grooming a young boy with alcohol. |
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