Family Loyalty Vs Home Analysis

Family - the play focuses around the Rutherford family. The majority of the conflicts within the play are caused and affected by the family - such as sibling rivalry, children vs father. The resolution involves family abandonment - the children leaving Rutherford - and the hope of the beginning of a new one - Mary returning with her son, wanting a better future for the both of them.
Loyalty vs Freedom - we see this theme throughout, the struggle between family loyalty and freedom. It is seen during Janet’s monologue, as she has been loyal but finally chooses freedom over that loyalty. This is the opposite with her brother John, as he gives up his freedom and returns home in the hopes that family loyalty will help him get back on his feet and