Night, Mother

I think the MDQ (Major Dramatic Question) is not simply, "will Jessie kill herself?" but more something along the lines of, "will Mama come to terms with Jessie killing herself?" The entirety of the play is spent talking about Jessie killing herself and why and then Jessie tells Mama she wants her to do a few things when she is gone. And Mama begs her not to and tries to persuade her otherwise so the major dramatic question could be, "will Mama succeed in dissuading Jessie from killing herself?" but I don't think it is quite as simple as that either because if that was the MDQ, the play would've ended the moment Jessie killed herself. But the play does not end the moment Jessie kills herself. The play continues to Mama grabbing the hot chocolate pan and the phone and dialing Loretta's number and asking to speak to Dawson. That is why I said, "will Mama comes to terms with Jessie killing herself?" Not like you could ever understand why your daughter would end her own life in your house after telling you about it. That is why the question wasn't, "will Mama understand?" it was, "will Mama come to terms with?" And I think 'coming to terms with' is more like, "will Mama do the things Jessie asked her to when she dies?" Mama threatens Jessie at one point saying that when she died, she wouldn't do any of the things Jessie asked of her. But we see, at the end of the play that this is not true. Mama does everything Jessie told her to, exactly like she told her to do it. So the answer to that question would be, yes. Because it has a yes or no answer, my question, "will Mama come to terms with Jessie killing herself?" functions properly as a MDQ.