AMS Flashcards
[she presses her hand to top of her head] A1
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[raising her arm over the audience] – brings audience into moral responsibility A1
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[warningly] Kate, [exasperated] Joe; matriarch A1
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[rocking ceaselessly in a chair] kate A3
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[he speaks almost inaudibly] shows moment of catharsis, Joe always loud character A3
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[she begins sobbing, as] curtain fall, Kate A3
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They don’t say it on the radio but I’m sure that in the dark at night they’re still waiting for their sons. A1 KATE
War and the American psyche
He’d like to take every man who made money in the war and put him up against a wall. GEORGE A2
War and the American psyche
The business! The business doesn’t inspire me. A1 /
I want to build something I can give myself to. A1
CHRIS
Idealism
He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out. JIM A3
Idealism
Money. Money-money-money-money. You say it long enough it doesn’t mean anything. JIM A3
Idealism
So who flew those P-40’s, pigs? A1 CHRIS
Idealism
See it human, see it human. A1 JOE
Responsibility / Guilt and Shame
The man was a fool, but don’t make a murderer out of him. A1 JOE
Responsibility / Guilt and Shame
What must I do? Rep A2 JOE
Responsibility / Guilt and Shame
[a warning and a question] he’s not going to marry her. A1 KATE
Matriarch
That’s what a war does. I had two sons, now I got one. A1 JOE
Family
A father is a father. A2 JOE / Father or no father.. ANN A1
Family
Because if he’s not coming back, then I’ll kill myself! A1 KATE / I’m his father and he’s my son and if there’s something bigger than that I’ll put a bullet in my head! A3 JOE
Family
Because certain things have to be, and certain things can never be. A1 / God does not let a son be killed by his father. A2 KATE
Family
There’s something bigger than the family to him. KATE/ nothin’ is bigger! A3 JOE
Family
But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were. A3 JOE
Family
I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man, I saw you as my father. A3 CHRIS
Family
Now I say. He’s coming back, and everybody has got to wait for him. A2 KATE
Matriarch
This is a zoo, a zoo! A3 CHRIS
Individualism
Stop being a philosopher, and look after yourself. A2 KATE
Individualism
I told you to marry that girl and stay out of the war. A2 KATE
Individualism
This is the land of the great big dogs, you don’t love a man here, you eat him! A3 CHRIS
Individualism
Today a doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger. A1 JOE
Money
It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace , it’s nickels and dimes, what’s clean? Half this Goddamn country is gotta go if I go! A3 JOE
Money
And he’s got money. That’s important, you know. A2 SUE
Money
Now what’s a man going to do with an old dictionary? / You mean he’ll make a living out of that? A1 JOE
Money
I’ve got such a funny pain on the top of my head. / It’s not like a headache. A1 KATE
Guilt and Shame
You have such a talent for ignoring things. CHRIS to Joe A1
Guilt and Shame
Everything they have is covered with blood. GEORGE A2
Guilt and Shame
Why me above all? few lines after [not remembering any of it] A1 JOE
Guilt and Shame
Oh, no, it broke. Couple of years ago. A1 hammock JOE
Guilt and Shame
You’re not even an animal, no animal kills its own, what are you? A2 CHRIS
Guilt and Shame
He would forgive me! For what? A3 JOE
Guilt and Shame
Forget now. Live. A3 KATE
Guilt and Shame
We never took up our lives again. We’re like at a railway station waiting for a train that never comes in. A1 CHRIS
Past
Boy, the poplars got thick didn’t they? ANN A1
The trees got thick, didn’t they? GEORGE A2
Deception
It’s a tragedy: you stand on the street today and spit, you’re gonna hit a college man. A2 JOE
Class / Lack of Education
Brooch versus broach
Class / Lack of Education
What is that, every week a new book comes out? A1 JOE
Class / Lack of Education
