Naughty or Nice?

Paula Vogel plays an interesting game with the two man characters in The Mineola Twins. While Vogel introduces twins Myrna and Myra as two distinctly opposite characters, with Myrna as the “good twin” who is tormented by Myra, the “evil twin,” she quickly demolishes the boundary between victim and aggressor. The Myrna of the first scene, an innocent twin who complains about her sister’s dirty socks being thrown onto her side of the room and is troubled by the idea of her sister working in a tavern of “ill repute” transforms into a psycho who screams “I’LL KILL YOU” repeatedly at both her sister and her boyfriend while Myra, the horrible dirty sock offender, is forced to flee from her enraged sister through a bathroom window.