The Tribute story
Three former colonial English ladies, notorious for their miserly ways, hear about the death of a former servant. They decide against putting a notice in the newspaper, inviting the woman's niece out to lunch instead. Directed by: Graham Evans. Story by: Jane Gardam.
10 total · 8 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| friendship | major | The story surrounded three old friends meeting up for lunch. |
| kindness | major | Polly Knox offered her eggs to Dench during the war when such food was considered a delicacy, and Dench repaid the act of kindness by leaving Polly 200,000 pounds in her will. |
| master and servant | major | The three old ladies described their relationship with their late servant Dench. |
| miserliness | major | Three miserly ladies had penny pinched their former servant, Dench. |
| poetic justice | major | The three old ladies had been ungenerous to Dench in life, and she repaid the favor to them in death. |
| rich character vs. poor character | major | Lady Eleanor Benson and Mabel Ince had dinner together with they resentful poor friend Fanny Soane. |
| snobbishness | major | The first two ladies were uptight snobs. |
| social inequality | major | We saw a a pair of relatively well off old ladies venture into unsavory black parts of London to fetch their poor old friend. |
| lesbianism | minor | One of the old women mentioned that Dench's nanny may have been a lesbian. |
| uptight character vs. laid back character | minor | The first two ladies were uptight, the third was very laid back. |