''A cream Cracker under the settee'' by Alan Bennett.

... ''A cream Cracker under the settee'' A cream cracker under the settee'' is a play in the form of monologue. It was written by Alan Bennett who wrote the play in 1940s, Doris is the main character, and she is an old lonely lady who's on her seventies and thinks of her present life and reminisces about her past. Doris loves cleaning, she links everything to cleanliness. But sadly in her poor conditions she finds hard to maintain this cleanliness that she's mad about. Instead a cleaner called Zulema from the social services comes to her house every week to clean for her. Zulema always try's to persuade Doris to move to Stafford house which is an old peoples home however Doris despises the thought of Stafford house as she quotes ''I don't want to be stuck with a lot of old lasses'' she thinks that the people of Stafford house

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