Prompt 8: Buried Child

So, I'm not quite sure how to respond to this prompt but I shall try my best. I don't think this play is so much about deception as it is more about denying the truth and pushing away their true identity. Every character in some form or another is crippled: Dodge is old and an alcoholic, Bradley is missing a leg, Halie is severely depressed, Tilden is not mentally capable of caring for his parents, Vince doesn't know his own identity/roots, Father Dewis is immoral and a coward, and Shelley is the outsider to this not-normal world Vince is part of. These defects as I'll call them have affected everyone severely that it blinds them from seeing the truth of the event or who they are. To me it seems so different from the plays listed is because of the secret of the buried child. It has affected every character to an extreme degree that it seems hard to believe that a human being could live that way denying such a dark memory/event. Shelley is the outsider in all this mess since she represents what an audience would see and even she finds it hard to believe how this family can function in their dysfunction. Uh, not sure if that answered the question but it's how I think this play is made differently if it made any sense.