A contrast and comparison of the two characters, Susan and Irene, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

... A contrast and comparison of the two characters, Susan and Irene, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads There is a wide variety of connection between the two monologues. They both are about women who are trapped in some way. Her anti-social letter writing and her lack of friends trap Irene. You know that Irene has a lack of friends because she calls her pen "a real friend". Susan is an articulate woman trapped in a sterile marriage to an ambitious Anglican clergyman, she has taken to drink and begun an affair with the proprietor of an Asian grocery store in nearby Leeds. Susan is the vicar's wife in 'In Bed amongst the Lentils' and her unhappiness and loneliness is hard to analyse. Alan Bennett here shows that Susan is a witty and complex character. She is not so helpless that she could not have avoided a loveless marriage and a role, tying

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