The Carpenter

Somewhere in Montreal Live the Rosato family. The Rosato their own daily problems like any family here in Canada. They are often together during lunch, approximately once a week. Their relation seems to be very close. Each member of the family influences each others in it is own way. The father of the family, Silvio Rosato was born in Italy. He left all he got when he came back from the world war to find job in Canada and to make more money for raising is children. From this moment all will change in his life. He will find the love, he will have children, etc. In fact, this is a new beginning for him. During the play, the father is now an old man. In fact the play was the third and the last part from a series of three. He will become a victim of his memory loss problem. In a way, he will live in the past during a big part of the play, remembering when he was at war. He will totally lose control of himself. His family think that is caused by alcohol so the father will stop drinking, but that is not going to help him. At the end of the play, he is going to die. This play shows all importance of love between two persons. We can see it when his wife stays at his side when he is dying. She sleeps and still lives with him in a way at the hospital. We can see also the importance of family. The brother and the sisters are almost all the time together, talking about their life problems and about their father. They will become closer with their mother after the death of their father.

I think there might be a link between immigrants of late 50’s with immigrant of our days. Like we have seen in the play, when the father arrives in Canada, a police man who is also an Italian, tells him to stay away from Irish if he don’t want any trouble. He also said that he should stay and live with some Italians to avoid some problems. Like today, Immigrants lives often together. They come here to work, leave in peace with their habits. But I don’t really think they come here for us. Also, today it seems to have sibling rivalry with some groups of people from other countries. That’s makes part of news everyday if you take a look closely. Aging problem is also something commons today. As we know, more people become older everyday…In fact there is older person in Quebec more than younger one. To conclude, I think this play was in fact very similar to the life we live this moment.