"Nobody very remarkable ever come out of it, s'far as we know."

pg. 6

Stage Manager to the audience

Showed that the town is ordinary.

"All that education for nothing."

pg.9

Stage Manager to the audience, talking about Joe Crowell's future death.

The idea: is the education truly wasted?

(lady in a box: "Oh, Mr.Webb?Mr. Webb, is there any culture of love of beauty in Grover's Corners?")

 "Well ma'am, there ain't much-- not in the sense that you mean. Come to think of it, there's some girls that ply the piano at high School Commencement; but they ain't happy about it. no ma'am, there isn't much culture; but maybe this is the place to tell you that we've got a lot of pleasures of a kind here we like the sun comin' up over the moutain in the morning and we all notice a good deal about the birds. We pay a lot of attention to them. And we watch the change of the seasons, yes, everybody  knows about them. But those other things, you're right, ma'am, -- there ain't much.--Robinson Cursoe and the bible; and Handel's "Largo", we all know that; and Whislter's "Mother"-- those are just about as far as we go."

pg.26

Mr.WEbb to the lady in the box

Grover's Corners isnt sophisticated in the material or fashionable way, but they have nature

George to Emily.

Their budding relationship and friendship

pg.27

"So-- people a thousand years from now-- this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. --this is the way were were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying."

pg. 33

Stage Manager to the audience

Describing the cycle of life of ordinary people.

"Is the moon shining on South America, Canada, and half the whole world?"

pg.43

Rebecca to George

They are just a tiny little part of the whole world.

"It said: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover's Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America. But listen, it's not finished: the United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of Giod-- that's what it said on the envelope."

pg.46

Rebecca to George

It shows how big the world is and how insignificant we are in the larger picture. Yet, on her own farm, everyone knows Jane. It's the paradox of life, how we are insignificant yet significant.

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

pg.24

Mr. Webb to Stage Manager

Shows that Grover's Corner is a very plain and ordinary town, even more boring than many other small towns.

"Doc Gibbs died in 1930. The new hospital's named after him. Mrs. Gibbs died first--a long time ago, in fact"

pg.7

Stage Manager to audience

shows that the characters of the story are mortal and ordinary, everyday people.

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

pg. 14

Mrs. Gibbs to Rebecca

Tells us that the little everyday things go unappreciated because washing and ironing is hard, but instead of Thank You, Rebecca complains.