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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: care for me when I'm old? Plenty of girls have taken to me like
daughters and cried at leaving me; but I let them all go because
I had you to look forward to. I kept myself lonely for you.
Youve no right to turn on me now and refuse to do your duty as a
daughter.
VIVIE [jarred and antagonized by the echo of the slums in her
mother's voice] My duty as a daughter! I thought we should come
to that presently. Now once for all, mother, you want a daughter
and Frank wants a wife. I dont want a mother; and I dont want a
husband. I have spared neither Frank nor myself in sending him
about his business. Do you think I will spare you?
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