P.26

"Well ma'am, there ain't much-not in the sense that you mean...we like the sun coming up over the mountain in the morning, and we all motice a good deal about the birds...there ain't much...those are just about as far as we go."

• spoken by Mr.Webb
• spoken to the Lady in the box
• people in the audience were asking about the life style in Grover's Corners and showing how ordinary life really is
• the lady in the box is a choric figure

p. 5

"There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery."

• spoken to the audience
• spoken by stage manager
• saying that you don't really need scenery to show what life is like. The extra stuff are just props that aren't needed.

p.9

"Want to tell tell you something about that boy Joe Crowell there. Joe was awful bright...was all wrote up in the Boston paper at the time...but war broke out and he died in France.-All that education for nothing."

• spoken to the audience
• spoken by stage manager
• trying to say that his life was wasted when it really wasn't

p.24

"Very ordinary town, if you ask me. Little better behaved than most. Probably a lot duller."

• spoken to the stage manager
• spoken by Mr. Webb
• describing how the town is and is showing that the town is really ordinary just like all towns

p.33

"So-people a thousand years from now-...This is the way we were: in our growing up snf in out msttyinh and in our living and in our dying." 

• spoken to the audience
• spoken by stage manager
• describing the cycle of life

p.39

"Naturally I didn't want to say a word about it in front of those others, but now we're alone-really, it's the worst scandal that ever was in this town!"

• spoken to Mrs. Gibbs
• spoken by Mrs. Soames
• saying that she is a big gossiper

p.39-40

"Now Louella! We all know about the troubles he's been through, and Dr. Ferguson knows too... the rest of us can do is not to notice it."

• spoken to Mrs. Soames
• spoken by Mrs. Gibbs
• trying her best not to gossip and talk about a person in their town, Mrs.Stimson

p.37

"Make yourself comfortable George; I'll only keep you a minute. George, how old are you?"

• spoken to George
• spoken by Dr. Gibbs
• showing that Dr.Gibbs is trying to remind George of how old he is and that he needs to act his age and be more responsible when it comes to helping around the house

p.41

"Well believe me Frank, there is something to gossip about."

• spoken to Dr.Gibbs
• Spoken by Mrs.Gibbs
• showing that Mrs.Gibbs doesn't want to gossip with her friends because they are just going to say bad things. All she wants to do is express how worried she is to her husband.

p.42

"Oh dear. There's always something to pick up, seems like...all those people..."

• spoken to Dr.Gibbs
• Spoken by Mrs.Gibbs
• showing how much a mother had to work back then compared to now