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The One Day Of The Year By Alan Seymour

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The generation gap is conveyed by the different things Alf and his son Hughie believe to be Australian. In the play ‘The One Day of the Year’ Alan Seymour, the director, conveys the different ideas of being Australian through the use of dramatic conventions of dialogue and stage directions of mum’s reaction to Alf and Hughie’s argument about what it is to be Australian. When Hughie arrives home with Jan, Alf is offended by Jan stating she's a ‘dinky-di Aussie’. In retaliation, Alf says ‘Look at Hughie. Look at his clothes, he said. He’s done up like a yank.A stinkin’ lot of imitation Yanks, the whole damn country’s going down the drain.’ Alfs dialogue conveys his anger and hatred for Jan and Hughie’s preference for American culture over their
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