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"The Glass Menagerie," Scene One and Scene Two, by Tennessee Williams (1944)

Author: Tennessee Williams

“Scene One.” and "Scene Two." The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, New Directions, 2011.


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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 3:28PM) : I wonder when you read this for the first time if you get how interesting it is that a character is also the narrator. This isn't an introduction, it is actually the beginning of the play.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:00PM) : I wonder the same I was like if the person who is telling the story the main character of the story but I get to the conclution that yes it's the same person
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 3:08PM) : one thing I want to ask is that why the narrator didn't use the first person? I mean ( I ).
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:32PM) : Hum me two I wander.
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The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers of lower-middle-class population and are symptomatic of the impulse of this largest and fundamentally enslaved section of American society to avoid fluidity and differentiation and to exist and function as one interfused mass of automatism.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 17 2020 2:29PM) : to be honest I have no idea what the first first paragraph mean. The English is very deep. So id any of you can explain I will be very happy to
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 2:31PM) : Maybe ask yourself, "Who is talking? What is he trying to explain to us in the audience?"
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 2:33PM) : Also why do you think he starts off with such intellectual-sounding words?
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:10PM) : I think the narrator is trying to describe the location and at what time the story took place
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:12PM) : What kind of time was it? Stressful like now? Or war? Or peaceful and calm? [Edited]
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:03PM) : Oumy did you understand now
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 24 2020 2:07PM) : yes but I had to read over and over
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:04PM) : I feel the same way to I even when to google and look for the story but I still not understanding who exactly is telling the story and what it's about. I think Its about a family and a Guy who grew up without their family I guess
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:07PM) : Where do you feel like someone did not have a family?
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:12PM) : the I use to understand the story is through Youtube. I went there and I watch the play.
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:13PM) : Please add a link to what you saw.
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:34PM) : for this I agree with you guys This is a little be confuse.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 17 2020 2:29PM) : As I can infer by this first paragraph is that the whole passage will be about the differences of races in different part of the united states.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (Mar 24 2020 2:10PM) : Inference is totally on point:) more

Because, even though the first passage is a little challenging to understand the focal point of it is race.

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 17 2020 2:30PM) : Hum more

what came of society we are living?

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:04PM) : do you mean what Kind of society is he living ?
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 24 2020 2:06PM) : I don't get it. Do you mean what kind of society are we living? my question is what do you mean by that?
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 24 2020 2:06PM) : What made you react in this way?
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 17 2020 2:32PM) : Wow this is good imagery to describe where they were in. I feel like flashback is important in life.
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 24 2020 2:09PM) : what made you think this and why this reaction "wow"
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:18PM) : this story happened in the past so what were you waiting for?
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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 17 2020 8:04PM) : I just wonder who is talking in this text?
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:05PM) : I think the person whos talkings is Tennessee the author
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:08PM) : Ah... it may seem like it, but it is the character, Tom who is talking.
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 21 2020 5:43PM) : I think they are are basically described the place and apartment. also talking about the population of the area
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:26PM) : thank you bravo. you get it
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (Mar 24 2020 2:10PM) : from this first paragraph what I understand is that they are talking about American lower-middle class people livelihood.
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Abigail Zamora Abigail Zamora (Mar 24 2020 2:17PM) : yes that is what I understand too, also I think the narrator is talking about its own experiences
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:30PM) : pardon but the text doesn't talk about social class. it talked about an old woman who want her daughter to become somthing in the future.
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Abigail Zamora Abigail Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:20AM) : but I think I can not say that just by reading the first paragraph
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:41PM) : I don't understand this part.
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Mar 24 2020 8:32PM) : Description of the apartment location!
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 10:24PM) : The author is using imagery to described the apartment .
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 12:39PM) : Comment more

Someone is telling the story. But we don’t know if that person is involved in the story or not yet.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 4:13PM) : This story is all about narrator past memory.
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The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. The fire-escape is included in the set - that is, the landing of it and steps descending from it.

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (Mar 24 2020 2:09PM) : The Wingfield apartment more

So what I understand is that the aparment is located in an alley and the only way to enter to the apartment is through the fire-escape.

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Paul Allison (Apr 14 2020 2:19PM) : Hi Lenin... I think you will see how important this fire escape is ... especially to Tom. What do you think it might represent, symbolically?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 17 2020 2:37PM) : Comment [Edited] more

I guess that the author is using simile or metaphor to compare the character feeling with what is around then.

By reading this people can identify the sad emotion using tone as a writing strategy too.

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:06PM) : I think he uses many literally elements because he also uses characterization to describe Amanda and Laura but also he uses imagery.
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 24 2020 2:11PM) : how can you identify the sad emotion?
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (Mar 24 2020 2:26PM) : i think in this paragraph it says if there is an fire how people will escape this situation.
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:33PM) : Read that again. What kinds of fire is he talking about here?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 24 2020 2:32PM) : Question more

I wonder what would happen to this building ? the structure bring history to live.

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cristin tolentino cristin tolentino (Jun 19 2020 5:36PM) : same here i wonder what happen to the build.
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Mar 24 2020 8:45PM) : I think this sentence explaining the fact that these buildings structures may be at risk of slow fires-and that's why the apartments have an alley to enter through extinguishing fires.
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abdallah sevede abdallah sevede (Apr 16 2020 2:29PM) : This shows what type of condition they were living in and also so a clear aspect of their social class.
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The scene is memory and is therefore non-realistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 21 2020 5:47PM) : I think this paragraph basically saying about how seen can be unreal. lot of emotion also takes place In these story I guess
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Paul Allison (Mar 24 2020 2:11PM) : It's funny to think that what we are seeing on the stage is not what really happened, but this character's memory of what happened. Isn't that similar to the point-of-view being the mother's perspective in "Everyday Use"?
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 24 2020 2:12PM) : are you sure or you're guessing
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:35PM) : Hum
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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:16PM) : I think this part is just saying how this play is all about memory and so can be misunderstand
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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (Mar 24 2020 2:17PM) : Memory more

I think this paragraph let us know that the author is trying to remember something about the aparment where The Wingfield family lives maybe…

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Paul Allison (Apr 14 2020 2:21PM) : It's helpful to understand that the play takes place just after the Great Depression n the 1930's and just before World War II -- a very traumatic time. But also maybe we are at a similar time.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (Mar 24 2020 2:40PM) : i think the narrator remember some of his past memory which is very important to him and that stayed to his mind as a poetic.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 17 2020 12:58PM) : It looks like he is remembering something that makes him feel scared or have tension about it in the past.
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 2:27PM) : Memory is so important in this play!
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:08PM) : I am agree with you that he is trying to remember something about his past and also about when he was a younger kid because he mentione something about his dad which is that the dad left them when he was a kid and his siblings where kids as well. more

its important to pay close attention to this because I feel that the whole story is about memories

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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 17 2020 8:09PM) : I like this sentence because for me when you play a scene, it is really important to have some memory.
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Paul Allison (Mar 20 2020 8:37AM) : What do you think this sentence implies about the rest of the play? Are we getting the facts of what happened from a "reliable narrator" or are we getting everything through the biased lens of an "unreliable narrator"? more

How does this compare to the narrator in “The Lesson” (Sylvia) or the narrator in “Everyday Use” (the mother)?

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Mar 24 2020 2:11PM) : I think there is an action that made him remember something that he didn't like to remember.
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:24AM) : I think the sentence mean that all the details are not clear.
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Mar 24 2020 8:58PM) : Memory plays a large role in creating the scene, and because memory has a great connection to the heart it increases some unreal details due to emotion.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (Mar 24 2020 2:15PM) : The Memory more

is the box where we could keep our life, but even sometimes it can omit important details of our daily life that may be useful at some point.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 12:41PM) : Comment [Edited] more

Someone on the story like poetic in other words someone like to write.

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 17 2020 12:59PM) : He says that sometimes when things happen in our life, we could make a history out if it. We can change in our minds the way it happened.
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Paul Allison (Mar 20 2020 8:41AM) : What does this mean about how we live our lives? Do we jus accept that everyone has their own version of history or is there any value in seeking to learn what actually happened? What does any of this mean for the characters in the play? more

Are we getting Tom’s version of things? What if the story were told from any of the other character’s points of viewz/

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 24 2020 2:13PM) : I think it means that people choose to forget their horrible memories and only try to keep the good ones. "we live our lives" means that people we choose our own vision in this life.
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:37PM) : yes because life is choice and each person has her or his own choice to decide which life the want.
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 9:59PM) : I think It's important to let people make their own chose even though they may make a mistake but they will learn from it.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 17 2020 2:33PM) : from this part I have the feeling that it would be a memory in which the author would try to remember what inspire him to do something, as well as when it says " the scene is memory" I can understand by this that the author would refer more

to every detail in his life that shape his life to do better for himself I guess.

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 17 2020 2:37PM) : In my perspectives this means that emotions and memories are the subjects that make history.
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 2:39PM) : Interesting, can you say more? Don't facts make history? [Edited]
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 24 2020 2:37PM) : Comment more

I agree with the author memory are so related with emotions. Which let us talk about the feeling of the story.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 4:20PM) : the narrator is a one character of this story and this story is his memory. the narrator all the memory happen in the music
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At the rise of the curtain, the audience is faced with the dark, grim rear wall of the Wingfield tenement. This building, which runs parallel to the footlights, is flanked on both sides by dark, narrow alleys which run into murky canyons of tangled clothes-lines, garbage cans, and the sinister lattice-work of neighboring fire-escapes. It is up and down these alleys that exterior entrances and exits are made, during the play. At the end of Tom's opening commentary, the dark tenement wall slowly reveals (by means of a transparency) the interior of the ground floor Wingfield apartment.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 17 2020 2:42PM) : the whole paragraph is describing the Wingfield tenement, which is helping us to understand what the inside look. Which mean that the author was using literary technique the show something.
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 24 2020 2:04PM) : Which literary technique?
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:09PM) : he uses lots of settings in the story as well its another important fact that we need to keep an eye on it
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 24 2020 2:17PM) : I think describing a place would help more for readers to understand the story and the characters are making memories out of it. I would say even the readers.
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 21 2020 5:48PM) : this kind of hint to the movie theater when it is dark around
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:28AM) : I agree with you because said the audience is on the dark waiting for the program.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (Mar 24 2020 2:20PM) : Description more

This is the interpretation of a time of disparity or just as simple as the beginning of a tragedy plate.

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Abigail Zamora Abigail Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:31AM) : it is the start of the play??
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 17 2020 2:34PM) : Description
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 26 2020 8:01AM) : yep
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:35AM) : describe the place how look with may details that have on the place.
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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Mar 24 2020 2:17PM) : Audience first sight of the play and all its components.
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Abigail Zamora Abigail Zamora (Mar 26 2020 11:40AM) : so it is describing a tenement
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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 17 2020 8:13PM) : This sentence is really important because it leads to conclusion about the aspect of the apartment and how the tenement is behavior.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 12:44PM) : Comment more

The first character is mentioned

His name is Tom

Downstage is the living-room, which also serves as a sleeping-room for Laura, the sofa is unfolding to make her bed. Upstage, center, and divided by a wide arch or second proscenium with transparent faded portières (or second curtain), is the dining-room. In an old fashioned what-not in the living-room are seen scores of transparent glass animals. A blown-up photograph of the father hangs on the wall of the living room, facing the audience, to the left of the archway. It is the face of a very handsome young man in a doughboy's First World War cap. He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say 'I will be smiling forever'.

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 9:42PM) : This paragraph is so important because it's describing the house and at the same time it's making a story. the imagery is so understanble.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 17 2020 1:06PM) : In this paragraph, he uses metaphor to describe every single artifact in the house. He eventually makes about his house something adventurous to think about
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 10:02PM) : I think this can play an important in the play and also to helped the readers to enjoy it.
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 17 2020 2:41PM) : I think is this paragraph the author is explaining that every moment what happened in the specific place.
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 2:04PM) : yes I am agree with you .
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:10PM) : he also talk a lot about his siblings Amanda and Laura which means that they grew up together without being separated at any moment.
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 21 2020 5:51PM) : there is so much information and details get provided my the author. such as how things work out and have done
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Mar 24 2020 10:10PM) : A description of the apartment from the inside. more

A description of the apartment from the inside, and the distribution of parts of the apartment between a living room, a kitchen, and others. There are pictures of the father hanging in the living room. The father is described from the picture that he wears his hat during the First World War. He is smiling and showing courage forever.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 12:46PM) : Comment more

The second character is mentioned

Her name is Laura

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Abigail Zamora Abigail Zamora (Mar 26 2020 12:01PM) : I think this sentence is an important factor to describe the situation inside the house
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 4:28PM) : what i understand from this line is that her sister Laura and tom grew up at the same apartment and they were middle class income family this is why Laura didn't have her own personal room.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 12:52PM) : Comment more

I wonder is this sentence is relate with the history title.

Since the author is mentioned glass animals

Menagerie is a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.

This make my think that Laura like to have a collection of small animals considerate that she is the one who sleep on the living room.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 4:30PM) : his father has been die long time ago. and they keep his picture on their living room
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 1:03PM) : Comment more

A third character is mentioned the father if believe that his picture in the wall is relate with the memories of the house.

The father participate in the First World War. Which make me think that this narration took place in the beginning of the 19’s.

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The audience hears and sees the opening scene in the dining-room through both the transparent fourth wall of the building and the transparent gauze portières of the dining-room arch. It is during this revealing scene that the fourth wall slowly ascends out of sight. This transparent exterior wall is not brought down again until the very end of the play, during Tom' s final speech.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 1:06PM) : Comment more

Here someone is keep telling the story. What would happen next

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (Mar 24 2020 2:33PM) : Reaction [Edited] more

The reaction of the audience to the plate is so unite that is almost like a connection between the audience and the play.

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The narrator is an undisguised convention of the play. He takes whatever license with dramatic convention is convenient to his purpose.

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (Mar 24 2020 2:43PM) : The strategy more

putting the narrator connections and combined it with the perspective of the play is just a genius idea to convince the audience and in this case the reader

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 4:32PM) : i think when tom get angry he like to smoke and calm himself.

TOM enters dressed as a merchant sailor from alley, stage left, and strolls across the front of the stage to the fire-escape. There he stops and lights a cigarette. He addresses the audience.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 1:11PM) : Comment more

The first thing Tom do after arrived home is smoked.

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TOM: Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 13 2020 1:50AM) : Thought more

While i was reading this, This gave me the impresion that Tom is imposing person because he claims himself to have the truth.

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 21 2020 6:54PM) : Tom is a one of the character of these play who addressed himself as a magicians
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 2:13PM) : I do not think he addressed himself as a magician because at the second sentence he started of as " but I am the opposite of a stage magician".what he was trying to said was that he have his ways to do certain things and he knows how to easily deal with more

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 12 2020 3:23PM) : Is that text about magician?
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 3:30PM) : But he says that he is the OPPOSITE of a "stage magician." Isn't he saying something about revealing the truth behind the art of theater?
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:36PM) : Tom look like a magician but i think personally he is opposite of this.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:14PM) : Comment more

I guess that Tom is trying to be funny or he is not conscience about what he is saying.

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To begin with, I turn bark time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

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In Spain there was revolution. Here there was only shouting and confusion.

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 17 2020 8:55AM) : this is life.
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 3:30PM) : Are you saying that there is a lot of chaos these days?
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:06PM) : not really but it still.
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 12:46PM) : They still continue with this issues?
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:13PM) : I think the story is also refelcting a lot of what is going on right now in real life
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 17 2020 2:10PM) : it is a demonstration of how magic he can be converting reality in the form of allusions
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In Spain there was Guernica. Here there were disturbances of labor, sometimes pretty violent, in otherwise peaceful cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis. . . .

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 12 2020 1:59PM) : Comment more

Tom is comparing the peaceful community in Guernica with the community of some cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis letting know that this cities have a lot of issues in their community.

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:11PM) : what is Gueemica?
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 24 2020 3:11PM) : Its a town of Spain they called Guernica.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:20PM) : Comment more

Tom is talking about the Human Right Movement ? or the Labor Movement ? Which happen after the 18’s

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 3:35PM) : Why does Spain comes to the plate ? more

I wonder what is the meaning of this comparison between Spain and other countries?

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:39PM) : i think the narrator want to see Guernica city as a peace full city without any violence.
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This is the social background of the play.

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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 12:49PM) : This mean that its the main idea?
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:40PM) : before this line the narrator was giving us hind how will be the story.
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[MUSIC]

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The play is memory.

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Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic.

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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:14PM) : Based what I read so far that I can understand that the play is a memory and emotional.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:42PM) : this story is narrator pas life, that narrator can see in his memory through the music.
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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 12 2020 2:04PM) : Comment more

Based on this, the play is more about the memories and feelings and is not based on real life.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music. That explains the fiddle in the wings.

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I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother Amanda, my sister Laura and a gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:28PM) : Comment more

-The narrator is Tom and there is 4 main character
-Amanda (Mom)
-Laura (Tom’s sister)
-Unknowing gentleman who appear in the last scene.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:43PM) : its interesting that the narrator is a one of the main character of this play.
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 17 2020 4:13PM) : The narrator in this play will also be a character. But what's his name? [Edited]
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 2:31PM) : I like how they are telling the readers who the characters are, which make a lot sense to me now.
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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 24 2020 3:07PM) : Me too i like that because it is important to know who speak in the play.

He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for. There is a fifth character in the play who doesn't appear except in this larger-than-life-size photograph over the mantel.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 2:34PM) : this is characterization, describing the character of the guy, which I don't know his name.
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 11:04PM) : Are you talking about Tom?
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:19PM) : I think the charcter tome is telling us about the other characters in the play.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:14PM) : since the beginning he is trying to give us a clue of how is every character in the play
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 10:54PM) : What does "Emissary" mean?
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 24 2020 3:18PM) : Is a person that have one mission to do.(agent)
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 3:37PM) : Is the Gentleman caller the most realistic because of his actions in the memory of Tom or in reality that he could discern it as the most realistic?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:32PM) : Comment [Edited] more

The unknowing person is the only realistic or normal character on the play ?

I guess that we can uses this information for foreshadowing.

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 10:56PM) : Now I understand that this is a story about a play. He has characters and himself included.
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:21PM) : this guy may felling sad about his father.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:16PM) : He felt that the blank spaces that his dad let on him was something that mark him for life

This is our father who left us a long time ago. He was a telephone man who fell in love with long distances; he gave up his job with the telephone company and skipped the light fantastic out of town. . . .The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words -

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:29PM) : It seem like his father like to travel. wow he also like to be alone. anyway the history has a good starting
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:16PM) : I think the father travel a lot to space from his family
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:19PM) : In this part it's show that Tom and Laura did not lived with their father. This uncompleted family and this may affected their perspective of family. [Edited]
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:49PM) : comment more

The last character is Tom’s father who only appear in picture but his family still remember him.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:47PM) : his father has die long time ago and he miss his father
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 17 2020 3:39PM) : the author is trying to empathize the absent of a father to shows how can that shape a kid to make the decision for the man of tomorrow. the author was clear " my father felt in love with the distance" which means that he never have the love of a fater. more

that can show us that even thought the father never gave him love, it affected him while Tom was becomeing a man.

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 10:58PM) : Giving everyone a roll to play in it. He shows that how much a child needs a father's presence in order to make good choices in the future.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 3:38PM) : was he really dedicated to his family. Did he love his wife or something? Or did he ever care about his family?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:52PM) : Comment more

I guess that Tom is using metaphor since the play is not explain if his father died or just disappear from his family ?

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:48PM) : here he talk about what his father job and how his parent fist met or have relationship
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 17 2020 3:42PM) : " the last I heard from him" can be the reflection of a kid missing his dad or maybe the reflection of feeling happy without a dad
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 11:12PM) : Yes I thing you right because even though you are happy if one of you parent is missing it"s like something is missing.
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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 17 2020 9:17PM) : May be from this sentence I can infer that the boy feel content to live without his father.
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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 12:59PM) : I think probable he show that its ok if this father not is there but in the same time he feel anguish for his father.
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 2:40PM) : Flashback of their father
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 11:16PM) : They may missed him.

'Hello - Good-bye!' and no address.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:53PM) : Comment more

The father run away from his family.

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I think the rest of the play will explain itself ...

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 12 2020 2:19PM) : Comment more

So, the way that Tom describe his family and talk about his father, let us think that he is dead but latter on he says that the last thin that he heard from is father was a picture of him in Mazatlan, this let the reader think that maybe the father abadond his family.

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[AMANDA's voice becomes audible through the portières.

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LEGEND ON SCREEN: 'Où SONT LES NEIGES'.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 2:50PM) : I like to see new language. the fact that they are using words in different language.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 19 2020 12:45PM) : What I infer from this story is that is is based on French context.
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Leticia Zang Leticia Zang (Mar 24 2020 3:10PM) : I do not think so it is all the play that.
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He divides the portieres and enters the upstage area.

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AMANDA and LAURA are seated at a drop-leaf table. Eating is indicated by gestures without food or utensils. AMANDA faces the audience. TOM and LAURA are Seated is profile.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:52PM) : I think Amanda pay attention to everywhere. and she was watching how her son eat and she think it wasn't right way to eat. this is why she was teaching her son how to eat.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:51PM) : i think in this play when Amanda start speaking she talk nonstop

The interior has lit up softly and through the scrim we see AMANDA and LAURA seated at the table in the upstage area]

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AMANDA [calling] Tom? Yes, Mother.

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AMANDA: We can't say grace until you come to the table!

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 17 2020 3:32PM) : someone can explain this for me?
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Paul Allison (Mar 17 2020 3:36PM) : Do you pray before you eat?
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:17PM) : this means that every time that the family was about to eat they thanks to God for the aliments that are on the table
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 2:58PM) : Comment more

Amanda have the custom or habit of grace before eat.
But they don’t have food on the table?

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:54PM) : i think when it's time to eat they seat for together and pray before eat.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:21PM) : having no expectations means less disappointment
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TOM: Coming, Mother. [He bows slightly and withdraws, reappearing a few moments later in his place at the table.]

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AMANDA [to her son]: Honey, don't push with your fingers. If you have to push with something, the thing to push with is a crust of bread. And chew !chew! Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down. Eat food leisurely, son, and really enjoy it. A well-cooked meal has lots of delicate flavors that have to be held in the mouth for appreciation. So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:35PM) : I think the mother was right she exaggerate it. she shoold let her son eate the tfood in peace.
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 3:53PM) : AMANDA is teaching her son manner on how to eat food in a proper way. She is telling her to chew it because it is the good way to know how the food really taste. And also she used imagery but comparing human and animals.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 19 2020 12:51PM) : My curiostity about this paragraph is that it seems like the boy was able to do other things pretty well. Yet, I do not see the point that he needed to be educated by a father in order to learn how to chew a food. [Edited] more

Was the boy being raced with other types of people? Why did the mother feel pushed to teach him how to chew food when he should unvoluntarily do it , even by looking at her mother? what was his age ? How long has he lived with the mother?

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Maybe Tom just have something to do after dinner what’s why he is trying to eat faster ?

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 12:47AM) : Amada is not being quite herself based on her social status
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 11:05PM) : This paragraph shows that a mother is educating her sons how to behave when eating. I feel like this what a person needs. Even though there is no father's love a mother's love and support can cover everything.
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[TOM deliberately lays his imaginary fork down and his chair back from the table.]

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TOM: I haven't enjoyed one bite of this dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it. It's you that makes me rush through meals with your hawk-like attention to every bite I take. Sickening - spoils my appetite - all this discussion of - animals' secretion - salivary glands -mastication!

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 3:58PM) : here he has the right to say this but as long as you know how to eat in proper way, it will just help when you go outside and eating with different person. So as for me it is better that your parent are correcting you right now than wait and go outside more

where people will laugh at you.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:55PM) : tom get angry when his mom was teaching how to eat.
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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 18 2020 11:11PM) : This how many kids behave when they don't understand.
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Tom is not patient with his mother’s comment.
He is mad.

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 12:48AM) : Tom seemed to bothered by her mother constant discussion
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AMANDA [lightly]: Temperament like a Metropolitan star! [He rises and crosses downstage.] You're not excused from the table.

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TOM: I'm getting a cigarette.

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 17 2020 3:50PM) : I am pretty confuse, is tom a man already? or he was a teenager or a kid I am pretty confuse about this character.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:17PM) : Mr Paul I need your Help to understand this
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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 12 2020 2:29PM) : Comment more

Tom smoke a lot because of the stress he has and when he is mad.

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AMANDA: You smoke too much.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:56PM) : when tom get angry he smoke but his mom does not like this.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:23PM) : she seems worry about him smoking way to many cigarettes
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[LAURA rises.]

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LAURA: I'll bring in the blancmangé.

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[He remains standing with his cigarette by the portières during the following.]

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AMANDA [rising]: No, sister, no, sister - you be the lady this time and I'll be the darkey

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 3:58PM) : Why is the mother calling her sister ? are they suppossed to play different roles at once?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:06PM) : Comment more

Is one me or I think Amanda have more problems with Tom compare with Laura
since he is saying that he is the dark and Laura the Lady.

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LAURA: I'm already up.

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AMANDA: Resume your seat, little sister, I want you to stay fresh and pretty for gentleman callers!

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 5:59PM) : Amanda want her daughter to be pretty as like her when she was young.
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LAURA: I'm not expecting any gentleman callers.

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AMANDA [crossing out to kitchenette. Airily]: Sometimes they come when they are least expected! Why, I remember one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain -[Enters kitchenette.]

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:42PM) : I think the mom is right girls have to stay prety while they are waiting for their prince. But i'm also disagree with mom when she say that the daughter have should not do anything.
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TOM: I know what's coming

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LAURA: Yes. But let her tell it.

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TOM: Again?

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LAURA: She loves to tell it.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:10PM) : Comment more

Amanda like to remember her experiences on the Blue Mountain

which see that her both sons know these experiences at ready and they are boring of listen to then every time.

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[AMANDA returns with a bowl of dessert.]

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AMANDA: One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain, your mother received seventeen! gentlemen callers! Why, sometimes there weren't chairs enough to accommodate them all. We had to send the nigger over to bring in folding chairs from the parish house.

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 17 2020 3:36PM) : kool part.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:11PM) : Comment more

Amanda is saying that when she were young she used to have so many boy calling at her every time ?

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 19 2020 12:55PM) : why is she talking like thatabout a black person? were they white French people? more

It also shows that this story was made during segregation times or during discrimintation

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:24PM) : I don't really like that "N" expression by her

TOM [remaining at portières]: How did you entertain those gentleman callers?

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A M A N D A: I understood the art of conversation!

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TOM: I bet you could talk.

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AMANDA: Girls in those days knew how to talk, I can tell you.

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:50PM) : that's thrue today girl and the girl of the past are not the same? the world is changed a lot.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:05PM) : i think Amanda in her young age she was very pretty brave.
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TOM: Yes?

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[IMAGE: AMANDA AS A GIRL ON A PORCH GREETING CALLERS.]

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AMANDA: They knew how to entertain their gentlemen callers. It wasn't enough for a girl to be possessed of a pretty face and a graceful figure although I wasn't alighted in either respect. She also needed to have a nimble wit and a tongue to meet all occasions.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 4:05PM) : As a connection when I was little my grandmother used to tell me this kind of stories, when she was in this type of situation
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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 12:55AM) : Amanda explains how girls would have conversation with gentlemen at their time.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:06PM) : i think she had lot of byfriend
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:21PM) : I like that part
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:16PM) : Comment more

Amanda strategy to keep boy closed to her.

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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 17 2020 5:18PM) : Amanda want her to be in a good shape when she will find a man ( gentlemen callers). For her it's not only about beauty it's also about skillful and been ready for all the occasion. [Edited] more

This show that she want her to have a partner in live.

TOM: What did you talk about?

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AMANDA: Things of importance going on in the world! Never anything coarse or common or vulgar.

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 3:54PM) : I don't know why the girl of the pass are so shy and the one of our time are so.....
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 4:09PM) : I have no idea what this mean but I think it's a language they using, or kinda a code that they understand.

[She addresses Tom as though he were seated in the vacant chair at the table though he remains by portieres. He plays this scene as though he held the book.]

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My callers were gentleman -all! Among my callers were some of the most prominent young planters of the Mississippi Delta - planters and sons of planters!

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (May 12 2020 2:39PM) : Comment more

Amanda in her youth had many suitors and many of these were gentlemen had very good wealth and very good living conditions

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[Tom motions for music and a spot of light on AMANDA. Her eyes lift, her face glows, her voice becomes rich and elegiac.

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 12:57AM) : Amanda seemed to be rich as she was telling the story

SCREEN LEGEND: 'Où SONT Les NEIGES']

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There was young Champ Laughlin who later became vice-president of the Delta Planters Bank.

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:22PM) : what this meaning really
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:51PM) : Comment more

Is that me or Amanda regret the fact of married with the wrong person?

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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 1:04PM) : I agree with you because she try to see the differences that if she married with a other men. She is reflecting on her decisions.
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Hadley Stevenson who was drowned in Moon Lake and left his widow one hundred and fifty thousand in Government bonds.

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There were the Cutrere brothers, Wesley and Bates. Bates was one of my bright particular beaux! He got in a quarrel with that wild Wainwright boy. They shot it out on the floor of Moon Lake Casino. Bates was shot through the stomach. Died in the ambulance on his way to Memphis. His widow was also well provided for, came into eight or ten thousand acres, that's all. She married him on the rebound - never loved her - carried my picture on him the night he died! And there was that boy that every girl in the Delta had set her cap for! That brilliant, brilliant young Fitzhugh boy from Greene County!

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 4:37PM) : she is telling how those guys succeeded in their lives and how they end up, but still loving her.
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:24PM) : nice explanation of description.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:19PM) : comment more

Amanda is talking about her lovers.

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TOM: What did he leave his widow?

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AMANDA: He never married! Gracious, you talk as though all of my old admirers had turned up their toes to the daisies!

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TOM: Isn't this the first you've mentioned that still survives?

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AMANDA: That Fitzhugh boy went North and made a fortune - came to be known as the Wolf of Wall Street! He had the Midas touch, whatever he touched turned to gold!

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 9:43PM) : I will like to know what happened to these gentleman? I mean the seven gentleman. I know that some of them die and some them survived like Tom fother.
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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 4:40PM) : Don't you guys think that her stories are made up.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:04PM) : Is it a metaphor if how lucky was the person that that that gentleman knew?

And I could have been Mrs Duncan J. Fitzhugh, mind you! But - I picked your father!

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (Apr 14 2020 3:26PM) : Comment more

I have the feeling that she is regretting getting married whit Tom father istead of the gentlemen.

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LAURA [rising]: Mother, let me clear the table.

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:05PM) : She is not caring about receiving any gentleman caller. She prefers instead to do other chores?
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AMANDA: No, dear, you go in front and study your typewriter chart. Or practice your shorthand a little. Stay fresh and pretty! It's almost time for our gentlemen callers to start arriving. [She flounces girlishly toward the kitchenette.] How many do you suppose we're going to entertain this afternoon?

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 4:59PM) : I don't know why she wants her daughter to stay in a good shape, charming. it does not matter, boys will love to who you are not what you are,
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:39PM) : I this she is materialist but at the same time she is protect mom.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:21PM) : Comment more

Amanda like to take her of Laura so she can stay pretty for any gentleman who want to married her.

Base on this paragraph Laura is study.

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 1:02AM) : Amanda seemed to using her daughter as a bait to be rich just like she wanted to be
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[Tom throws down the paper and jumps up with a groan.]

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LAURA [alone in the dining-room]: I don't believe we're going to receive any, Mother.

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AMANDA [reappearing, airily ] What? Not one - not one? You must be joking!

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 1:05AM) : The mother is surprised to know that her daughter is not as popular as she thought she were.
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[LAURA nervously echoes her laugh.S he slips in a fugitive manner through the half-open portières and draws them in gently behind her. A shaft of very clear light is thrown on her face against the faded tapestry of the curtains.]

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[MUSIC: 'THE GLASS MENAGERIE' UNDER FAINTLY. Lightly.]

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Not one gentleman caller? It can't be true! There must be a flood, there must have been a tornado!

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Lenin Vanderhorst Lenin Vanderhorst (Apr 14 2020 3:32PM) : Comment more

It is hard for her to believe that no gentleman is going to come with how popular she was in the past.

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:06PM) : Did Laura had a different influence than her Mom?
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:21PM) : i think laura and her mother think oppositely.

LAURA: It isn't a flood, it's not a tornado, Mother. I'm just not popular like you were in Blue Mountain. ... [Tom utters another groan. LAURA glances at him with a faint, apologetic smile. Her voice catching a little.] Mother's afraid I'm going to be an old maid.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:04PM) : What I think about their mother is that she over react. She thinks that everything still the same as it was during her time. The think she does not know how this new generation are capable of.
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 17 2020 9:24PM) : Laura feel not that popular as her mother however her mother are scare if her daughter will be a single.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:22PM) : Amanda want her daughter to have a boyfriend but laura seems very nervous abut it.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:24PM) : Family conflict more

Amanda is try to find a boy for Laura
but she don’t want to have one.

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Celines Zamora Celines Zamora (Mar 26 2020 1:09PM) : This paragraph tell us that that Amanda want find a good future for her daughter. But Laura show that she is not ready get marry.

THE SCENE DIMS OUT WITH 'GLASS MENAGERIE'

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Amanda talks about her expericenses and how she was famous whit the gentlemans in the Blue Mountain. Amanda is training her daughter so she can marry a gentleman quick, but I doesn’t seen that Laura want that, she is not ready for marriage yet.

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'Laura Haven't you Ever Liked Some Boy?'

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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:07PM) : hum this has a lot of description inside.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:24PM) : amanda mother want to know the if her daughter like any boy.
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On the dark stage the screen is lighted with the image of blue roses.

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[Gradually LAURA' S figure becomes apparent and the screen goes out.

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The music subsides.

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LAURA is seated in the delicate ivory chair at the small claw-foot table.

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She wears a dress of soft violet material for a kimono - her hair tied back from her forehead with a ribbon. She is washing and polishing her collection of glass.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:06PM) : I like when something have a lot of description
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:39PM) : me too
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 9:37PM) : Description
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The glass collection belong to Laura that what she most enjoy to do at home.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:25PM) : laura is more comfortable with the house work than going out, i think she feel very shy front of people.
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AMANDA appears on the fire-escape steps. At the sound of her ascent, LAURA catches her breath, thrusts the bowl of ornaments away and seats herself stiffly before the diagram of the typewriter keyboard as though it held her spellbound.

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Laura is scared of Amanda comment that why she stop washing her glass collection to keep typing to make Amanda believe that she were just working.

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Something has happened to AMANDA. It is written in her face as she climbs to the landing: a look that is grim and hopeless and a little absurd.

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She has on one of those cheap or imitation velvety-looking cloth coats with imitation fur collar. Her hat is five or six years old, one of those dreadful cloche hats that were worn in the late twenties and she is eloping an enormous black patent-leather pocketbook with nickel clasps and initials. This is her full-dress outfit, the one she usually wears to the D.A.R.

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:08PM) : foreshadowing, something is about to happen.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 19 2020 3:26PM) : They are using Imagery to show the appearance of the women in the scenario more

Amanda is being critizized by the way she looks

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The DAR (Debriefing and Renewal) program is designed for cross-cultural workers, singles and families, who are home from the mission field to the U.S. for a short home leave, a longer stay, or perhaps indefinitely.

Before entering she looks through the door.

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She purses her lips, opens her eyes very wide, rolls them upward, and shakes her head.

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Then she slowly lets herself in the door. Seeing her mother's expression LAURA touches her lips with a nervous gesture.]

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LAURA: Hello, Mother, I was - [She makes a nervous gesture toward the chart on the Wall. AMANDA leans against the shut door and stares at LAURA with a martyred look.]

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AMANDA: Deception? Deception? [She slowly removes her hat and gloves, continuing the sweet suffering stare. She lets the hat and gloves fall on the floor - a bit of acting.]

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 2:12AM) : Amanda is not really happy with her daughter because she would do what she tells her
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:30PM) : Amanda was really disappointed with her daughter because she feel like she is not doing a lot effort to be in a social places. She want her to meet new men in order to have a relationship.
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LAURA [shakily]: How was the DAR. meeting? [AMANDA slowly opens her purse and removes a dainty white handkerchief which she shakes out delicately and delicately touches to her lips and nostrils.] Didn't you go to the DAR meeting, Mother?

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:27PM) : she doesn't want to talk about the meeting

AMANDA [faintly, almost inaudibly]: - No. - No. [Then more forcibly.] I did not have the strength - to go to the DAR. In fact, I did not have the courage! I wanted to find a hole in the ground and hide myself in it forever! [She crosses slowly to the wall and removes the diagram of the typewriter keyboard. She holds it in front of her for a second, staring at it sweetly and sorrowfully - then bites her lips and tears it into two pieces.]

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Amanda is ashamed of something ? that happens to Laura

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 2:13AM) : Amanda is mad at he daughter
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Amanda is mad but still Laura is acting relax and calm.

LAURA [faintly]: Why did you do that, Mother? [AMANDA repeats the same procedure with the chart of the Gregg alphabet.] Why are you ??

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AMANDA: Why? Why? How old are you, Laura?

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 16 2020 3:35PM) : Mother wanted to show her daughter that she's doing something wrong, and that she is old enough to understand that is wrong.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:27PM) : mother get really angry on Laura because she has lie to her mother been six month.

LAURA: Mother, you know my age.

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 16 2020 3:44PM) : Here we go, Just like how teenagers doing all the time, acting stupid in order to find excuses. more

I think she understand why her mom ask her that question (How old r u) but she act like "Mom you know my age. Laura wanted her mom to think that she still not old enough to understand that is wrong so I have to forgive her.

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AMANDA: I thought that you were an adult; it seems that I was mistaken. [She crosses slowly to the sofa and sinks down and stares at LAURA.]

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:11PM) : she is a funny mom
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:38PM) : really she so funny
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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 9:59PM) : I don't know why mother wanted their daughter to get marie early?
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:09PM) : because some of daughter they are too much dangerous so it is better to married them early .
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 24 2020 3:10PM) : married someone early is not a crime.
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:46PM) : Her Mother have a higher exceptions in her daughter to be like and behavior as she want.
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Amanda is saying that Laura is unmatured person ?

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:28PM) : how in the world do you forget the age of your own child
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LAURA: Please don't stare at me, Mother.

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[AMANDA closes her eyes and lowers her head. Count ten.]

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AMANDA: What are we going to do, what is going to be. come of us, what is the future?

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Amanda believe that Laura behavior is affecting their future.

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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 2:18AM) : Amanda is really worried about their future if her daughter does not do what she tells her to do
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[Count ten.]

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LAURA: Has something happened, Mother? [AMANDA draws a long breath and takes out the handkerchief again. Dabbing process.] Mother, has - something happened?

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AMANDA: I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered [Count five.] - by life. ...

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Amanda is in shock or confused with this new.

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LAURA: Mother, I wish that you would tell me what's happened!

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AMANDA: As you know, I was supposed to be inducted into my office at the D.A.R. this afternoon. [IMAGE: A SWARM OF TYPEWRITERS.] But I stopped off at Rubicam's business college to speak to your teachers about your having a cold and ask them what progress they thought you were making down there.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:59PM) : Comment more

Amanda school, where she is study so Amanda went to informed herself about her daughter Laura were going in her study.

LAURA: Oh....

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AMANDA: I went to the typing instructor and introduced myself as your mother. She didn't know who you were. Wingfield, she said. We don't have any such student enrolled at the school!

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 19 2020 12:47AM) : thought the dialog between Amanda and Laura we can understand that they have a good relationship and all the feelings towards them were peaceful.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:57PM) : Comment more

is Wingfield their last name ?

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I assured her she did, that you had been going to classes since early in January.

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 19 2020 12:47AM) : where laura and Amanda sisters or relatives ?
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 3:55PM) : Respond more

Amanda is Laura mother

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'I wonder,' she said, 'if you could be talking about that terribly shy little girl who dropped out of school after only a few days' attendance?'

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 10:02PM) : I wonder why they she drop out of school? and more spesificly after a few days of attendance.
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one of the main Laura personality is being shy as we can see here in this paragraph. We can also see that her panic make her give up to her education.

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'No,' I said, 'Laura, my daughter, has been going to school every day for the past six weeks !'

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 19 2020 12:03AM) : I feel this happened because of the criticism she was receiving from her mother.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:30PM) : mother get really surprise when she heard that her daughter lie to her and going out every day. and Amand dont know where laura go every day
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'Excuse me,' she said. She took the attendance book out and there was your name, unmistakably printed, and all the dates you were absent until they decided that you had dropped out of school.

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:10PM) : Laura did not dropped out from the school. because of her too many absences, there are mistaken happens which convinced that she dropped out from the school. but, sometimes that reality is not true what we see and thinks
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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 2:28AM) : Amanda learns that her daughter been cutting school for a long time. She could not believe what the teacher were saying.
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:31PM) : Amanda couldn't believe that laura has been absent school for long time, and lie to her

I still said, 'No, there must have been some mistake I There must have been some mix-up in the records !'

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 10:16PM) : It seems like her daughter not going to school. more

Her daughter skipping the school, but Amanda couldn’t believe that, since her daughter leaving the house everyday as she’s going to school.

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And she said, 'No - I remember her perfectly now. Her hands shook so that she couldn't hit the right keys! The first time we gave a speed-test, she broke down completely - was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash-room! After that morning she never showed up anymore. We phoned the house but never got any answer' -while I was working at Famous and Barr, I suppose, demonstrating those - Oh!

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:21PM) : connect this to my brother who did the same thing, because he did not want to go to school anymore. While we thought that he was going to school, he was working with some of his friends at a shop
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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:34PM) : Amanda was really ashamed at from the professor when she discovered that Laura did not go to school for the last six weeks.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:03PM) : comment more

This paragraph show how much shy Laura is.

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 10:26PM) : Here I can make an great connection! more

Just like how Laura felt in the first day at the school, my brother have the same experience in his first school day here in NYC. I think that could happen to kids who scare of school for some reasons.

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 10:30PM) : * To correct my mistake, it was Laura first day at business college.
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:11PM) : They were blaming that Laura did not show up in the class where teacher tries to reach out her

I felt so weak I could barely keep on my feet!

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I had to sit down while they got me a glass of water!

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:06PM) : Comment more

Amanda were surprised with this terrible news.

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Fifty dollars' tuition, all of our plans - my hopes and ambition for you - just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that. [LAURA draws a long breath and gets awkwardly to her feet She crosses to the victrola and winds it up.]

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:35PM) : Comment more

wow! College were so cheaper during the time.

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What are you doing?

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LAURA: Oh I [She releases the handle and returns to her seat.]

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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:29PM) : her expression said everything
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AMANDA: Laura, where have you been going when you've gone on pretending that you were going to business college?

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Laura were lied to her mom for more the 6 weeks pretending go to her business college when she just went to walk.

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LAURA: I've just been going out walking.

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AMANDA: That's not true.

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LAURA: It is. I just went walking.

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AMANDA: Walking? Walking? In winter? Deliberately courting pneumonia in that light coat? Where did you walk to, Laura?

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Housseynatou Diallo Housseynatou Diallo (Mar 19 2020 12:07AM) : it's kinda weird but I wonder why she was walking at winter time.!!!!
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Yes, Laura could get sick by just going outside to walk during the winter every single day.

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LAURA: All sorts of places - mostly in the park.

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AMANDA: Even after you'd started catching that cold?

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LAURA: It was the lesser of two evils, Mother. [IMAGE: WINTER SCENE IN PARK.] I couldn't go back up. I threw up -on the floor!

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AMANDA: From half-past seven till after five every day you mean to tell me you walked around in the park, because you wanted to make me think that you were still going to Rubicam's Business College?

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 10:11PM) : actualy i don't what going on but U think the mother is right? walking around? even durinng the winter? huuuummmmmmm
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:13PM) : there is a conflictbetween mom and daughter about Laura business school.
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:45PM) : Comment more

This show that Laura have problems with herself she allow her fear to control her life.

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:32PM) : i totally agree with you.
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LAURA: It wasn't as bad as it sounds. I went inside places to get warmed up.

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AMANDA: Inside where?

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LAURA: I went in the art museum and the bird-houses at the Zoo. I visited the penguins every day! Sometimes I did without lunch and went to the movies. Lately, I've been spending most of my afternoons in the jewel-box, that big glass-house where they raise the tropical flowers.

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:14PM) : Laura spends her most of the time for visiting park and amusement park
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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 10:37PM) : OMG she's just like my brother who act like he's going to school everyday, but his teachers told me he been absent for two weeks. By the way my brother were going to the gym everyday when my mom, thinking he's in the school. [Edited]
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:33PM) : laura try to convince her mom that where she go every day

AMANDA: You did all this to deceive me, just for deception? [LAURA looks down.] Why?

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LAURA: Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:15PM) : Laura kind of giving bold attitude her mom.
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Student Issaka Dabre Student Issaka Dabre (Apr 12 2020 2:33AM) : Laura compares the dispensation mother face as Jesus mother at the museum
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:31PM) : mood changes might be very common if her daughter notice her behavior
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AMANDA: Hush!

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LAURA: I couldn't face it.

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[Pause. A whisper of strings.

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LEGEND: 'THE CRUST OF HUMILITY'.]

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AMANDA [hopelessly fingering the huge pocketbook]: So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? Stay home and watch the parades go by? Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie, darling? Eternally play those worn-out phonograph records your father left as a painful reminder of him? We won't have a business career - we've given that up because it gave us nervous indigestion! [Laughs wearily.] What is there left but dependency all our lives? I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life!

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:24PM) : DECEPTION!
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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:18PM) : she is expressing everything which she had suffered and question her daughter how it is painful living a life where did not get that much support by husband because he passed away early.
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:17PM) : Apparently the mother wants a better life condition for them. She believes that education can change the lives of them
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:35PM) : Amanda want her daughter to have better life and get education but when she knew that her daughter are not doing right thing she feel hopeless
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:48PM) : Comment more

Laura make excuse to not have contact with new people around her.

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:18PM) : She depends on the academic superation of her children in order to change her life
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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 4:52PM) : Comment [Edited] more

Amanda is trying to change Laura future with two option

- Make her married with someone who is going to take her of her economically.

- Study so she can depend of herself.

However, that see like Laura don’t like any of these options. That why Amanda feel disappointed of Laura.

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students Ahmed edhah students Ahmed edhah (Apr 19 2020 10:51PM) : This quote stand out for me, it is a painful truth. more

Everything that Amanda mention is the reality of 50% of females in my country, there’s two reasons for a woman to got into this situation. It could be that this woman didn’t like school so she drop of thinking that when I got married my husband will buy give me everything I need. The second most common reason, which is that their parents didn’t allowed them to finish school due to our their stupid culture not the religion as some people thought.

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Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? I swear it's the only alternative I can think of!

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It isn't a very pleasant alternative, is it? Of course - some girls do marry!

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[LAURA twists her hands nervously.]

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Haven't you ever liked some boy?

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LAURA: Yes. I liked one once. [Rises.] I came across his picture a while ago.

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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:44PM) : The good things she liked someone her mum should stop putting the pressure on her.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:33PM) : she has trust on her mom because is no easy to talk about this love things with someone that you don't trust

AMANDA [with some interest]. He gave you his picture?

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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:39PM) : Amanda has curies to see which boy does her daughter like

LAURA: No, it's in the year-book.

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Yeanoor Chowdhury Yeanoor Chowdhury (Mar 24 2020 3:20PM) : Lura has a crush of someone from the high school. Her moms wants her get married soon
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:40PM) : laura say that she saw him in the year book
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AMANDA: [disappointed]: Oh - a high-school boy.

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Aboubakar Dabre Aboubakar Dabre (Mar 18 2020 10:39PM) : most of people get their partenaire by the end of their high school. But some of them get break donw.
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[SCREEN IMAGE: JIM AS HIGH-SCHOOL HERO BEARING A SILVER CUP.]

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LAURA: Yes. His name was Jim. [LAURA lifts the heavy annual from the claw-foot table.] Here he is in The Pirates of Penzance.

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Fatoumata Diallo Fatoumata Diallo (Mar 24 2020 3:40PM) : This show even though Laura's mum want her to be in a relationship and she did not accept it's because she doesn't not find the right person yet.
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AMANDA [absently]: The what?

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LAURA: The operetta the senior class put on. He had a wonderful voice and we sat across the aisle from each other Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the Aud. Here he is with the silver cup for debating! See his grin?

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:20PM) : Looks like he was taking advantage of the days absent in school to see him
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Fatema Rahman Fatema Rahman (May 11 2020 6:42PM) : Laure try to represent jim on her mom better way so her mom can like him too.
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AMANDA [absently]: He must have had a jolly disposition.

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LAURA: He used to call me - Blue Roses.

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[IMAGE: BLUE ROSES.]

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 5:02PM) : Comment more

Laura met a boy call Jim on High School and she get in love with him.

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AMANDA: Why did he call you such a name as that?

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LAURA: When I had that attack of pleurosis - he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I Said pleurosis he thought that I said Blue Roses! So that's what he always called me after that. Whenever he saw me, he'd holler, 'Hello, Blue Roses! I didn't care for the girl that he went out with. Emily Meisenbach. Emily was the best-dressed girl at Soldan. She never struck me, though, as being sincere. . . . It says in the Personal Section - they're engaged. That's - six years ago! They must be married by now.

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Laura used to have paint on her chest, cough and shortness to breath during High School when she met Jim.

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:29PM) : Why did not she clarify him the grammar? was this word considered insensitive to her feelings?
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:34PM) : rare they did not keep a touch to each other after they spent so much time together? more

is she somehow ending up like her mother somehow in terms of feelings and sentimental life?

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 5:24PM) : Comment more

Laura never have another opportunity to talk to Jim again.

I guess that this news make her lose her chance to see Jim or even have a connection between each other.

AMANDA: Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. [Gets up with a spark of revival.] Sister, that's what you'll do!

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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:37PM) : She is pushing LAura to oursue education if she wants to obtain the love of her life in the future. At the same time she is being determined off of what she wants with her future as well as hers future.
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Eros Montero Eros Montero (May 14 2020 6:35PM) : she really wants her daughter to depend on a man
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[LAURA utters a startled, doubtful laugh. She reaches quickly for a piece of glass.]

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LAURA: But, Mother

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AMANDA: Yes? [Crossing to photograph.]

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LAURA [in a tone of frightened apology]: I'm - crippled!

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 5:39PM) : comment more

A person unable to walk or move normally; disabled.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 6:12PM) : Comment more

This make me remember Maggie because she also felt inferior after her skin burned. Here we can see how Laura feel less too.

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 6:21PM) : comment more

Man vs. himself
Laura have problems with herself

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[IMAGE: SCREEN.]

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AMANDA: Nonsense! Laura, I've told you never, never to use that word. Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity and - charm! That's all you have to do! [She turns again to the photograph.] One thing your father had plenty of - was charm!

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ms Oumy Diop ms Oumy Diop (Mar 18 2020 5:29PM) : I like a mother who will support their kids no matter what.
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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 24 2020 3:19PM) : they really took lots of support from the mother as they never had a dad
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Idelkys Checo Idelkys Checo (Mar 24 2020 4:59PM) : Can the Mother really predict destiny ? She does not have control of what happened? more

Just because Jim had a girlfriend and decided to make his life with her does not mean that it had to do with a defect in Laura, with her way of being with people or the way people see her or even think about her

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Emely Lopez Emely Lopez (Mar 25 2020 6:02PM) : Comment more

I like the way how Amanda (mom) is trying to animate Laura to think that by being crippled would not stop or affect her future.

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Denieris Marte Denieris Marte (Mar 19 2020 12:48AM) : can I have a clarification of what was the main idea of the conversation between this two ladies?
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Kadidja El-Hadji Kadidja El-Hadji (Mar 17 2020 3:40PM) : wawo I feel a lot of tone hear because it describe at begin the thing that author want us to know.

[Tom motions to the fiddle in the wings.]

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THE SCENE FADES OUT WITH MUSIC

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