Night, Mother: The most depressing play ever in one act

This prompt is difficult because I feel like there are so many questions to be asked in regards to this play, it is difficult to identify the "Major Dramatic Question". From a dramaturgical standpoint, however, I think that I could make a reasonable argument that the MDQ is "Will Mamma and Jessie be able to part ways?" This could be worded better, but in my reflecting, I felt like it wouldn't be right to center my MDQ around either Mamma or Jessie and exclude the other. Even they are the only two people in this play, I can't one hundred percent peg either of them as the protagonist. We grow to care about and root for both of as the play goes on. Of course, we do not want Jessie to get what she wants, which is death, so I suppose that is an argument against Jessie as the protagonist. Regardless, I digress. One of the main topics of discussion between Jessie and Mamma after we discover Jessie's plans to end her own life is that Jessie won't be here to take care of Mamma anymore and Jessie needs to make sure Mamma can get by without her. Jessie, even though she is determined to leave, she needs to make the separation as clean as possible. She feels a real responsibility to Mamma and feels like she can't leave her without making sure she will be okay. As Mamma reacts more and more poorly to the eminent death of her only daughter, we question, as readers, whether Jessie will really be able to go though with the suicide and leave her mother behind. Mamma seems defenseless on her own. Likewise Mamma can not accept that Jessie wants to die. She loves her, needs her, and feels responsible for her. She fights the reality of the situation as hard as she can, denying the truth and refusing to cooperate with Jessie's lists. However, this MDQ is answered in the last moments of the play where Jessie does, indeed, kill herself, parting ways with Mamma forever, and Mamma follows Jessie's instructions as ordered and calls the family, finally accepting what has happened and parting ways from her now deceits daughter, Jessie.