- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After Jo and her mother discuss the possibility of Jo working in a bar and thus, according to Helen, potentially “ruining” her life, Jo accuse Helen of already ruining her own. She concludes that she does not want to get married and end up like her mother.
Helen’s ironic comment about her daughter’s hopes suggests that she herself has no hope that Jo will make the right decisions in her life, or even that she is special at all. Instead, she believes that everyone ends up “the same way.” This comment might indicate death, since everyone is bound to die…