Harper starts being sarcastically open about her problems. In part II, Act I, scene 7 she said, I could be a witch. Why not? I married a fairy. This quote is an example of how Harper was making sarcastic jokes about the problems that have been driving her to create a dream world that she can bear to live in. At this point though, Harper can deal with her husband being gay. Instead of trying to escape her life which only made things worse, in part II Harper is dealing with her marriage in other ways then entering an imaginary world to escape it.As the play winds down, Harper knows for sure that her husband is homosexual but she wants to hear the words from his mouth. She asked Joe, When we have sex, why do you keep your eyes closed? She knows that the answer is because he is attracted to men, not her. Harper has come so far as to dealing with his sexuality so she is testing herself to see if she can handle hearing it from her husband himself. Harper is ready to let her husband go in Part Two. She has made a big progression within herself. Harper was afraid of everything in Part One, but by the end of the play she is taking the initiative to deal with her problems and more importantly take steps towards making things better in her real life. Towards the end of the play when Harper starts working out the situation with Joes homosexuality, Mr. Lies is around less and less. She did not need him anymore. He was simply an escape from having to deal with her real life. After Harper learned to handle what was thrown at her by life, she did not need Mr. Lies to take her away anymore. The interactions that Harper had with Mr. Lies represented her ability to deal with the truth. In Part One when he took her away all of the time and she went to him for advice, it was apparent that she could not handle her marriage and her life. Taking Valium and confiding in Mr. Lies was the only way that Harper knew out of her reality. In part I...
