How are the issues of men and power portrayed through the characters of John, Maggie, and Jenny in Act 3 of Men Should Weep?

John's anger at Jenny's financial support for his family is summed up in his attitude that he is the 'heid of the hoose', despite his inability to provide for his own family. The shame, jealousy, and anger at his own failure lead him to call his daughter's money 'whores winnings', insinuating that his own daughter is a prostitute. This brutal accusation is met by his wife Maggie turning on John and taking control of the families situation. Pointing to John's failures to secure a job, increasing the size of the family by pressuring Maggie into sex, and failing to lift the family out of poverty, Maggie takes the money so that family can move. Insisting John can do as he pleases and in this moment she becomes the 'hiad of the hoose'. Men are portrayed as having power, but only by the man. The real power lies with the women, both Maggie and Jenny, in that they are the ones who save the family from poverty and allow for the youngest son to be returned from the hospital to their new, damp free, home. This inversion of power signals a shift in the characters, the play, and the wider social changes which have taken place since the time of the play.