A critical Analysis of Dolly At The Dentist by GB Show
GB Shaw was a great dramatist. He wrote 50 plays and his plays are full of wit and humour. Show was a great critic. He shocked the society of his time by presenting the ideas that were quite opposite of popular belief. Dolly at the dentist is the opening scene of one of his plays " You Never Can Tell." Dolly is a young lady who visits a dentist to have her tooth taken out. The dialogue between the dentist and Dolly are extremely witty and entirely enjoyable. Dolly is a young woman of eighteen. She visits a dentist named Valentine. The dentist is known as five shillings dentist because he charges five shillings for each thing. He has set up a clinic and he is a bachelor and has been in his clinic for six weeks. He has had no patient so far. Dolly is his first patient. She did not let the dentist give her gas. She did not like to have gas because it would have caused her 5 shillings extra. When the dentist has taken out her death, she