As we have completed reading the play, today we traced plot elements as categorized in the Freytag pyramid. We first addressed the major conflict in the play and how it crescendos into the play's climax in Act III. We noted the relationship between the rising action , the climax, and Walter's character development as he adapts values more consistent with family love rather than the worldly definition of success. I further addressed the symbolism of Mama's plant in Act III and its significance to theme as in the final moments of the play Mama retrieves from the now vacant apartment the plant which "expresses" her.