Coming, Mama story
Lucy has waited on her malingering mother her whole life, to the point where she is not allowed to get married. When Lucy's lover Arthur proposes for the last time, Lucy overdoses her mother's sleeping medicine successfully. However, after Lucy marries Arthur, she discovers that Arthur's mother is exactly the same kind of demanding, malingering woman that her mother had been. Directed by: George Stevens, Jr. Story by: Henriette McClelland, James Cavanagh.
17 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing between love and family | choice | Lucy was forced to choose between her mother (and presumed inheritance) and her lover, Arthur, when he proposed with a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum. |
| controlling family member | major | Lucy was fed up with her domineering mother for preventing her from getting married. |
| coping with being ill and indisposed | major | Mrs. Baldwin was bedridden with some unspecified, possibly faked, medical condition. Mrs. Clark was bedridden because of a fall down the stairs. |
| coping with someone controlling your life | major | Lucy was fed up with her domineering mother for preventing her from getting married. |
| disapproving parent | major | Mrs. Baldwin disapproved of Lucy tying the knot with Arthur to Lucy's consternation. |
| engaged couple | major | Lucy and Arthur wanted to marry, but Lucy hesitated in an effort to satisfy her spiteful mother. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | Lucy murdered her mother in order to get an inheritance and get away to marry the man she loved. In a twist of something akin to poetic justice, she ended up with no money whatsoever and an equally domineering mother-in-law. |
| matricide | major | Lucy became fed up with her domineering mother's meddling in her love life and did in the old lady with a lethal dose of sleeping medicine. |
| mother and daughter | major | Lucy was driven to her wit's end but her bedridden, domineering mother. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Lucy and Arthur were as boyfriend and girlfriend before their engagement. |