"The Never- Never Nest" centres around the popular modern practice of living through hire- purchase system, which enables the low- income group to have things, which they cannot at once buy with their money. This system makes people extravagant. It encourages lavishness & taking the loan.
Purchasing things on instalments is easy, but to pay back is difficult. It is like struggling under the burden of the loan until it is paid off. The couple in the play, Jack & Jill acted ostentatiously by purchasing luxuries such as a car, radiogram, piano. This shows their indulgence rather than their necessity. Their desire for a sumptuous lifestyle compelled them to take a loan. Though they lived in voluptuous magnificence in the present day, they will have to suffer the encumbrance of paying back a huge amount of money altogether in the near future.
The play is a satire on the materialistic bent of the modern man.
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