The Stronger summary August Strindberg BBS 2nd year English

 Characters:

MME.              X-        an  actress,  married
MME               .Y-       an   actress,  unmarried
Bob- MME. X's husband (never appears in the play)

Scene - The corner of a ladies' cafe. Two little iron tables, a red velvet sofa, several chairs. Enter Mme. X dressed in winter clothes, carrying a Japanese basket on her arm.

The Stronger is a play where only one character speaks while the other listens and reacts only, written by August Strindberg. Miss Y is Mrs. X's husband's ex-girlfriend. Mrs. X met Miss Y in a cafe. She greeted her and then made fun of her because she was alone there on Christmas Eve. To make Miss Y jealous, Mrs. X showed gifts that she bought for  her  family. 
She revealed that Miss Y whose name is Amelie was her friend, she made her husband be friendly with her. Later, they fell in love. When Mrs. X knew this, their friendship broke. When Miss Y and Bob were in love, Miss Y used to offer him tulips in everything that Mrs. X had often noticed. In fact, Mrs.X hates tulips but to please Bob she had bought a decorated tulip slipper on Christmas Eve for him.

Mrs. X said that Miss Y had destroyed her life. Miss Y, had to like everything that Miss Y liked only to impress her husband. Mrs. X expressed that Miss Y had eaten her like a worm, therefore, she didn't like her. It means she changed a lot to be similar to Miss Y and pretended to be the stronger.
 

She said that Bob didn't love her anymore. She invited her to come home to see their love. At last, she said that she had everything but Miss Y had nothing. She couldn't keep a man's love with tulips and thanked her for teaching her husband to love and left the cafe saying that she was going home to love her husband.

 

Who is stronger?
At one level Miss Y seemed stronger than Mrs. X because she became successful to get Mrs. X's husband's love but in the end, we found that Mrs. X succeeds in keeping her husband with herself and her children. She did all that she could to get her husband back. In fact, she has changed herself totally into Miss Y to make her husband happy like Miss Y. Therefore, at the festival time she is with her husband and children and Miss Y is alone at the cafe.

Personal view
We should be ourselves and should not change completely just to keep someone in our life. Otherwise, we are insulting ourselves. Here Mrs. X tried her best to keep her husband with herself but she completely changed herself. This is not good