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page 47 "All that can happen in a thousand days." |
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- Who: Stage Manager
- To whom: The Audience
- Saying it in days to make it sound longer. Longer equals more opportunities and normal days. It is worth a life time.
- A thousand days is three year.
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page 49 "....and never a nervous breakdown." |
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- Who: Stage Manager
- To whom: The Audience
- He said this because he wanted to show the people that these wives do all the house work and chores even in holidays and never quit.
- Like Lucinda Matlock's Poem when she does all the work.
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page 49 "You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life....It's what they call a vicious circle" |
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- Who: Stage Manager
- To whom: The Audience
- Saying that it takes your whole life to realize you love it.
- A quote from Lucinda Matlock's Poem
- You have to live life to its fullest to love it.
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page 54 "Yes...people are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome." |
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Definition
- Who: Mrs. Gibbs
- To whom: Dr. Gibbs
- Anonymity-an idea that you could be here one day and gone the next and no one would know.
- We don't just want to come and go, we want to touch peoples lives and make people care about us.
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page 57 "Millions have folla'd it, George, and you don't want to be the first to fly in the face of custom." |
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Definition
- Who: Mrs. Webb
- To whom: George
- It is not any less special for him.
- Doesn't want to break the custom and have superstition.
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page 69 "It certainly seems like being away three years you'd get out of touch with things. Maybe letters from Grover's Corners wouldn't be so interesting after a while. Grover's Corners isn't a very important place when you think of all-New Hampshire; but I think it's a very nice town. |
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Definition
- Who: Emily
- To whom: George
- Hinting to him that she doesn't want him to forget about her.
- Also saying maybe she won't be as interesting as the college girls.
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page 72 "Emily, if I do improve and make a big change...would you be...I mean: could you be...." |
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Definition
- Who: George
- To whom: Emily
- He is asking her to be his girlfriend.
- First time they realize they like eachother.
- It is an important talk.
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page 80 "Well, if you love me, help me. All I want is someone to love me." |
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- Who: Emily
- To whom: George
- All we want in life is for someone to love us, to fufil us.
- Anonymity, doesn't want to feel unwanted and an outcast.
- Needs someone to care about her.
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page 82 "I've married over two hundred couplesin my day. Do I believe it? I don't know. M....marries N....millions of them." |
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Definition
- Who: Stage Manager
- To whom: The Audience
- Using variable to express the number of couples he has married.
- It doesn't make your wedding any less important.
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page 82 "Aren't they a lovely couple? Oh, I've never been to such a nice wedding. I'm sure they'll be happy. I always say: happiness, that's the great thing! The important thing is to be happy." |
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Definition
- Who: Mrs. Soames
- To whom: The wedding crowd
- It's not the quantity but the quality for happiness.
- People seem to want to be pretty, important. Which includes being skinny, flawless complection, make up, money, ect.
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