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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Theatre)

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play by Paul Zindel, first produced in 1965.It focuses on three members of the Hunsdorfer family: mother Beatrice and her daughters Tillie and Ruth. The Hunsdorfers live in what used to be Beatrice's father's vegetable shop, but the shop has been closed for years. Beatrice married young, a disastrous failed marriage that ended in divorce (later, her husband died by heart attack). Now the Hunsdorfers are scraping by in poverty, with apparently their only source of income being the $50 a week that Beatrice gets for boarding Nanny, a senile old woman. Beatrice is angry and bitter about her fate, hating the whole world, projecting that hate out onto her daughters. Ruth has epilepsy, and at some point in the past had a mental breakdown—a condition that runs in the family, apparently, given her mother's school nickname of "Betty the Loon". Younger sister Tillie is a bright high-school student with a talent for science, but her vicious mother, hating everyone who's better off in life than she is, seeks to crush Tillie's success.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A film adaptation was released in 1972, directed by Paul Newman, starring his wife Joanne Woodward as Beatrice.
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 As You Know: Ruth got a peek at her permanent record at the high school, which she tells her mother about, which is how the audience learns that Beatrice is divorced and her husband died of a heart attack and Ruth had a mental breakdown.
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 Berserk Button: Beatrice, who seems on the verge of exploding with rage throughout the play, finally loses it completely when Ruth taunts her with the "Betty the Loon" nickname the other kids taunted her with in high school. Beatrice completely loses it, and kills Ruth and Tillie's pet rabbit.
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 Bad People Abuse Animals: Discussed Trope. All of the Hunsdorfers are appalled to hear that Janice Vickery obtained her cat skeleton, which is in competition against Tillie's flower experiment, by boiling a cat alive. When Janice presents her skeleton at the science fair (in her only scene), she insists that she got a dead cat that was euthanized at the animal shelter. Then there's Beatrice herself who dumps beers on Tillie's pet rabbit while it's in its cage and finally makes good on her threats to kill it (leaving the body out in full view so her daughters are sure to see it.)
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