p.6

"Noboy very remarkable ever come out of it, s'far as we know."

• To the audience
• Said by the stage manager
• It is an ordinary town and he wats to show that
• Everyone is 99% the same, the 1% is the 1 percent we see

p.14

"I washed and ironed the blue gingham for you special."

• To Rebbeca
• Said by Mrs.Gibbs
• Washing and Ironing is a very big deal for Mrs.Gibbs to do
• This shows how much hard work they put into their day and without any breaks

p.26

"It's early afternoon. All 2,642 have had their dinners and all the dishes have been washed."

• To the audience
• Said by the stage manager
• Atchetype or the universal pattern that we all eat and go to bed at night ext.
• small but important

p.31

"All my children have got good features; I'd be ashamed if they hadn't."

• To Emily
• Said by Mrs.Webb
• She doesn't want Emily to get cocky about her looks
• Emily just wants George to like her

p.37

"I suppose she just got tired of asking you. She gave up and decided it was easier to do it herself."

• To George
• Said by Dr.Gibbs
• He heard his wife choping wood

p.42

"I think it's my duty to make plans for you to get real rest and change. And if I get that legacy, well,I'm to insist on it."

• To Dr.Gibbs
• Said by Mrs.Gibbs
• They are talking after Mrs.Gibbs has gotten home from choir practice
• Mrs.Gibbs is talking about how she wants to go to paris
• Dr.Gibbs doesn't want to take her to Paris
• They live in a small town and don't get to go anywhere much out of new hampshire

p.20

"Just keep dropin' hints from time to time-that's how I got to see the Atlantic Ocean, y'know."

• To Mrs.Gibbs
• Said by Mrs.Webb
• Mrs. Gibbs is talking about how she wants to go to Paris
• The Atlantic ocean is not very far from where they live at all so that's really not a big deal, but to Mrs.Webb it isa big deal because it is the only vacation she has probably ever taken in her life.

p.7

"Doc Gibbs died in 1930."

• To the auidence
• Said by the stage manager
• He is telling in the future what happenend to the people in the play so that we know when they die and how.
• Everyone goes through the cycle of life and everyone dies.
• 99% sameness 

p.39

"But, Julia! To have the organist of a church drink and drunk year after year. You know he was drunk tonight."

• To Mrs.Gibbs
• Said by Mrs. Soames
• Mrs.Gibbs doesn't want to gossip about him, but Mrs.soames wants to
• Mrs. Gibbs is really worried about hi, but wants to talk to her husbund about that, not Mrs.Soames

p.45

"I don't know. I just can't sleep yet, Papa. The moonlight's so won-derful. And the smell of Mrs. Gibbs' heliotrope. Can you smell it?"

• To Mr. Webb
• Said by Emily
• She is not to busy to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, like the smell of nature.
• She is sitting by her window.