Riders to the Sea

How does the short, one-act structure of the play affect the narrative arc and audience experience?

How does the play depict the effect of poverty on the family? Locate textual clues and evidence of poverty’s role in the family’s tragedies and lifestyle.

Compare aspects of the Hiberno-English dialect in this play and in another play in which it is present. How does the dialect affect the audience’s interpretation of the culture, and how does it create this impact?