- 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
Shortly after Neeley is born, Johnny begins to feel overwhelmed by his mounting responsibilities. His solution to this problem is to abdicate from them altogether in favor of drinking and taking one-night jobs. He realizes too late that he has taken on too much too soon. The author demonstrates sympathy for Johnny without letting the reader forget that Katie is in the same predicament but, unlike him, she doesn’t use it as an excuse to give up on life. Instead, she adjusts herself to her new circumstances, exhibiting a resourcefulness and strength that Johnny doesn’t have.
Johnny chooses to embrace…