The sentence: Do you want me to ignore it? is a clue. In a sense, this line also emphasizes that many people do a lot of things, and they will not change.
The pastor's transformation at the end of the play, until he mentioned the old woman's fake name in his speech, seemed to have an epiphany, and seemed to sense the brilliance of God, so from then on this hard, fibrous man became active.
It's interesting that the hostess never wanted to admit her mother's behavior, to quietly turning around and seeming to tell a little joke about heredity of character.
Of course, all the laughs aside, the blockbuster narrative is about one person changing the structure of a family's story, only with subtle twists to become the diamond of a stale story.
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