Michael's Memories

The scene returns to the kitchen in September, 1936, where the omen are doing chores and talking amongst themselves. Gerry looks at the completed kites and child Michael has made; each have “a crude, cruel, grinning face, primitively drawn, garishly painted.”

The adult Michael ends with a monologue in which he states that, with Agnes and Rose gone, and Uncle Jack dead, “much of the spirit and fun had gone out of their lives; and when my time came to go away, in the selfish way of young men I was happy to escape.” Gerry disappears to Spain. Later Michael receives a letter from a young man of his own age also called Michael Evans who was the son of Gerry. Gerry was married and had lived with his wife and three children in Wales but had died of his nostalgiv memories of that summer of 1936. The play concludes with Chris working in the knitting factory while Kate gets a job tutoring a young family.