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Dysfunctional Family In Tracy Letts 2007, August: Osage County

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Written by Tracy Letts in 2007, August: Osage County follows the demise of an extremely dysfunctional family as they reunite over the death of the patriarch, Beverly. Out of the multiple problems within this family, addiction plays the most prominent role in the characters’ identification and the structure of the family. In this research paper, I plan to analyze the effect that addiction has on the basic family unit and compare/contrast this to August: Osage County and the Weston family in order to determine whether the play would be an accurate representation or not.
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