“The Never-Never Nest" is a comic one-act play about a young couple. They
make full use of the buy-now-pay-later marketing system. This comedy is very
relevant today, because we can buy almost anything now on the installment
basis.
Jack and Jill were a young married couple who had a small baby. One day Anut Jane visited them. She was surprised to
find that even though Jack's salary was not very high, they lived in a
beautiful house with all comforts, such as a radio, a car and a refrigerator.
She began to wonder whether, as a wedding gift she had giving them 2000 pounds
instead of the 20 pounds she had wanted to give them. Otherwise how did jack
and Jill buy all these things? She suggested that the rent for such a house
must be very high. Jack replied that they owned the house.
Then Aunt Jane understood that though jack and Jill had
everything, nothing really belong to them. They bought everything they had on
the installment basis. Only a steering wheel of the car, a wheel and two
cylinders had been paid for. And only one leg of the sofa that Aunt Jane sat
on, belonged to them. The total amount to be paid towards installments per week
came to more than seven pounds. Jack was earning only six pounds a week. Jill
was a housewife. When Aunt Jane asked how he could pay seven pounds a week when
he was earning only six pounds, Jack said that they could take a loan. Aunt
Jane was shocked at the way jack and Jill ran their family. Before she left,
she gave ten pounds to Jill and told them to make at least one article
completely theirs, using that money. While jack went with Aunt Jane to the bus
stop, Jill sent the money to Dr. Martin. Jack came back and said that he wanted to
pay two months installments on the car using that money. But Jill said that by
paying the money to Dr. Martin, their baby would become completely theirs!
The end of the play is ironical, though it is an
exaggeration. The play is really a satire on the materialistic bent of the
modern man.
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