With detailed reference to the text analyse why Doris finally decides to take her own life in "Cream cracker under the settee".

... With detailed reference to the text analyse why Doris finally decides to take her own life in "Cream cracker under the settee". In your answer you should comment on society's attitudes towards old people as shown particularly by Zulema and the policeman. Bennett's "Cream cracker under the settee" is a moving monologue about Doris, a seventy five year old, fiercely independent and complex widower who lives on her own in fear of been moved to Stafford House. The play shows her reminiscing about her past, she thinks about many subjects including her late husband Wilfred, her childhood and painful memories of having her baby stillborn which has haunted her ever since. This is the reason foe her obsession with cleanliness. Through these memories I will explore the reasons contributing to Doris' severe unhappiness and eventually to her suicide. I will also be looking at Zulema and the policeman who Bennett uses to

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