Helena on the other hand ultimately cannot stay with Jimmy precisely because of the destruction of all her old certainties.
Fielding gives a good performance as the woman who tolerates Jimmy's invective, living constantly with the threat of something erupting in front of her. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it? It is clear from Osborne's script that there was no lack of a sense of life's difficulties around at the time.Įmma Fielding does a good job playing Alison, who has grown up with the one attitude but has been forced by her situation into the other. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same.
