Introduction Hilda Crane, also known as The Many Loves of Hilda Crane, is a play written by Philip Dunne in the year 1956. The play revolves more on the social life, Hilda Crane. Hilda is a young lady who returns to her hometown after five years stay in New York. While in New York, she gets divorced twice. In Winona, her home town she stays with her widowed mother, Mrs. Crane, who wants her to be married to Russell. Mrs. Burns, her mother-in-law is so much into her son Russell marrying Hilda that she even goes ahead and bribes Hilda with some cash so that she can agree. She even fakes her heart condition when Hilda turns down the offer. Hilda gets information from her friend about Mrs. Burns’ deceit and therefore she decides to leave. After some time, she comes back and turns alcoholic. Russell apparently becomes upset and uninterested with her. Hilda decides enough is enough, and she cannot take it any more theatrics from her mother in –law, and therefore takes a bottle full of medication that enhances sleep in an attempt to take her life of which she fails. Russell cheers her and promises to restore their original love and also build her a house. Play Analysis After spending five years in New York, Hilda Crane arrives by a train in Winona, her hometown. While still in New York, Hilda Crane gets divorced twice, this made her to acquire a dubious reputation. Hilda returns to her hometown and moves in with her widowed mother, Judith Evelyn. Her mother has great hope that Hilda will see the sense and accept to marry Russell Burns. Russell Burns is a very successful builder and therefore she feels Hilda being married to him will make her settle down (Britton & Grant, 2009). Hilda decides to chasten because she has been searching for a true lover, which have seemed to be a dream or apparently a euphemism with what she calls simply being a woman or what everyone else calls it being a tramp, or a harmless person. She got this from her l