Maria Irene Fornes made a huge choice by deciding to end each scene so randomly and leaving us with questions. But for her to end the entire play with unending questions was a huge choice on her part. It was so confusing! The entire play is about Orlando cheating on his wife, but then towards the end he blames Leticia of her scandals. We didn't see nor hear about Leticia doing anything wrong so for Fornes to spark up something new like this at the end was incredibly confusing to me. I feel like Fornes is trying to show her audience that yes, Orlando has a lot wrong with him, but maybe so does Leticia. The whole time we are accusing Orlando and pointing fingers at him, but maybe he has problems because of his wife.. Maybe he's handling things in a way he feels is best because his wife is just the exact same person as he is. Who knows.
I feel like the Conduct of Life is about how people go about life. Nena, for example, is very young and dealing with a lot more than most people. But she doesn't see it that way at all. She looks at it as though she has a better life than most and that she could be a better person and let her feelings and emotions out better than how other people let out their's on her. For instance, Nena's grandfather and Orlando bother let their problems out on Nena in a sort of rant and rage. They don't know how else to let it out. At one point in the play, Nena says how she wants to conduct her life in the best possible way. She's trying to venture off from the bad around her and this is a life lesson for Fornes' readers as well.
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