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"You'd be surprised, though --on the whole, things don't change much around here." page 86 |
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- stage manager said it
- meaning: Grovers corners is a normal town and it doesnt really change.
- he used it to show that Grovers corners isnt signifigant in any way and is just normal
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"It was wrote up in the Boston papers at the time" page 91 |
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- Joe Stoddard said it
- to the dead people
- he was talking about Simon Stimson's epitaph
- he was saying how it was really special to him and music was his gift but he didnt believe in it
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"Childbirth. I'd forgotten all about that. My, wasn't life awful-- and wonderful." page 93 |
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- Mrs. Soames said it
- to the dead people
- she was talking about how hard childbirth was, but then when the kid is born it is all worth it.
- it is PARADOX
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"Live people don't understand do they?" page 96 |
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- emily said it
- to mrs gibbs and the dead people
- shes talking about how they dont need to worry, but they still do
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"You not only live it; but you watch yourself living it. ... and as you watch it, you see the thing that they-down there- never know. you see the future. you know what's going to happen afterwards." page 99 |
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- the stage manager said it
- to emily
- he is saying that if she goes back, she will know what will happen. she will know that she's not with them anymore. and she will start thinking that she should and shouldnt have done certain things. she knows that she and other people have and will die.
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"No!-- at least, choose an unimportant day. choose the least important day in your life. it will be important enough." page 100 |
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- mrs gibbs said it
- to emily
- if she chooses an important day, then she will miss is even more
- if she chooses an unimportant day, then she will see that it actually really is important
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"Oh, that's the town I knew as a little girl. and look, theres the old white fence that used to be around our house. oh, i'd forgotten that! oh, i love it so! are they inside?" page 101 |
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- emily said it
- to herself/stage manager
- she misses life. it reminds her of all of the little things in life that she missed before and never payed attention to
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"I can't bear it. theyre so young and beautiful. why did they ever have to get old? mama, im here. im grown up. i love you all, everything-i cant look at everything hard enough." page 105 |
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- emily said it
- to herself and everybody
- its making her rreally upset because she knows that people will die and that life doesnt last forever
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"And this is from you. Why, Mama, it's just lovely and it's just what i wanted. It's beautiful" page 107 |
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- emily said it
- to her family
- she never said what it was and it was an invisible present, because if she said what it was, then people in the audience might judge it, and say thats ugly, or thats a bad present.
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"Good-by, good-by, world. good-by grovers corners... mama and papa. good-by to clocks ticking... and mama's sunflowers. and food and coffee. and new-ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you." page 108 |
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- emily said it
- to the world and everything
- she never realized all of the little things in life that she never noticed
- lifes too strong for you (lucinda matlock)
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"Yes, now you know. now you know! thats what it was to be alive. to move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. to spend and waste time as though you had a million years. to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. now you know--thats the happy existence you wanted to go back to. ignorance and blindness." page 109 |
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- simon stimson said it
- to emily
- "of those about you"-- those who cared
- hes really talking about himself!
- he didnt live life like he should have
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