Choices are in your hands.

I think that Willy Russell chose to end the play with Rita cutting Frank's hair for different reasons: first, as a way of showing that she wanted to acknowledge somehow all he has done for her; secondly, because she wants to help Frank to built his new self Haven't you ever change your hair style in order to change your mood? It is one of the most common ways of starting a change in our lives finally, because this is a very good way of showing us that the new educated Rita still keeps her essence and doesn't forget about her past: she has changed immensely but, at the same time, her cutting Frank's hair shows that she is still the hairdresser who was eager to learn and who is still eager to learn. Both Rita and Frank are still ready and waiting for learning.

What I want to add is in this scene we can perceived the word CHOICE . I think she had different choices since the moment she decided to start studying and as she said, she chose "her".But what Trish'attempted suicide taught is that she can chose how to live and thanks Frank because thanks to his help she had a choice.

To say goodbye, somebody who is "better educated" would be somebody who has accquired tools or strategies to make their own choices more autonomously, or has widened their range of choices, or can see themselves as better able to take wiser choices

The nature of Frank's feelings towards Rita.

Frank feels dissapointed towards Rita's attitudes. I say disappointed because he feels that Rita has completely forgotten about all they have done together and all they have shared. He thinks that Rita doesn't care anymore about attending Frank's lessons . When he realises that Rita is not working anymore as a hairdresser and she hasn't told him about it.

I complete empathise with Frank because I understand the way he feels.He thinks that now thatRita is educated and well-read she feels that she does not need him anymore.He feels that there is not place for him in Rita's new life. Rita makes the comparison between her relationship with Frank and that of a father with his suddenly grown-up daughter. she pretends to have changed because she seems to be acting this new self and not really be living or experiencing it

Who you really are...

Rita seems different from the beginning of the play.When she meet Frank she speak differently.She talked to Frank that her friend Trish told her she needs to speak properly all the time in order to practice.

Sometimes as students we tend to do the same and then we feel that we belong as the rest of the students.

She has become much more conscious of her capacities . She relates with other classmates and even argue Frank when discussing his point of view on her essays.These changes make Frank be jealous.

'What I'm saying is that it's up to the minute, quite acceptable, trendy stuuf about Blake; but there's nothing of you in there! This is what Frank want to say is that for him her essay on 'The Blossom' is not well done he wants to show her that, although he cannot say that her essay is not wrong, he wants to make her aware of the fact that what she has written is not based on her own views. He think whenever Rita acting in this way, she is not trying to improve herself but trying to change herself.

In fact, Frank does not want Rita to change because he feels she is losing her essence.

What I feel at this point,is that she uses her new way of speaking in order to fit in and not because she feels she learn to speak properly.After all,what Rita is doing now, is to speak in the same way like everyone around speak.So, what I have said in the previuos paragraph is dubtful, Has she grown and learned or is just an image?