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Drama Paper Drama Paper The Play Andre’s Mother is an example of a family and friends dealing with a death. Andre has died of AIDS, his mother, boyfriend and boyfriend’s family (Andre’s mother, Cal- Andre’s boyfriend, Arthur-Cal’s Father and Penny Cal’s sister) are gathered in central park, they are releasing white balloons as a symbolistic way of letting go of Andre. Andre’s mother does not speak in the play, although Cal speaks to her at length about how he wishes Andre had told her that he was gay, and how he feels that Andre was hiding his feelings to avoid hurting his mother and also to avoid her disapproval. He also speaks about his feelings of bitterness; he feels bitter about Andre’s death and towards Andre’s mother. I believe there are multiple reasons for Andre’s mother’s silence. First of all from my understanding she is amongst strangers, from what I understand she was not aware of the fact that her son was gay and had a boyfriend (or that he had AIDS) and therefore never met Page 1 Cal or his family, she may be feeling vulnerable and perhaps shy. She may also be in shock not andre’s, mother, about, play, andre, son, feeling, death, understand, feelings, family, cal’s, cal, boyfriend, towards, told, though, speaks, silence, seems, releasing, perhaps, own, mother’s, life, letting, go, gay, feels, father, fact, express, died, believe, before