Lost in Yonkers Lesson Plan

Discuss Bella's confrontation with her mother. What makes the scene work, if you think it does? What do you feel is missing from it, if anything?

In this final section of the play, Bella speaks directly to Grandma about her own emotions, something that seems almost unthinkable in the broader scheme of the family dynamic. When she returns home, Bella says that she cannot cry any more because she feels empty inside, and suggests that that is how Grandma feels all the time.

This moment is shocking for two reasons. First, Bella is speaking up for herself and expressing a hidden side of her life the the audience and her family were unaware of, and this gives us a more...