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[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

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War and the American psyche

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He’d like to take every man who made money in the war and put him up against a wall. GEORGE A2

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War and the American psyche

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The business! The business doesn’t inspire me. A1 /
I want to build something I can give myself to. A1
CHRIS

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Idealism

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He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out. JIM A3

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Money. Money-money-money-money. You say it long enough it doesn’t mean anything. JIM A3

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So who flew those P-40’s, pigs? A1 CHRIS

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Idealism

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See it human, see it human. A1 JOE

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Responsibility / Guilt and Shame

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The man was a fool, but don’t make a murderer out of him. A1 JOE

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What must I do? Rep A2 JOE

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[a warning and a question] he’s not going to marry her. A1 KATE

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Matriarch

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That’s what a war does. I had two sons, now I got one. A1 JOE

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A father is a father. A2 JOE / Father or no father.. ANN A1

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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

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Family

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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

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Family

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There’s something bigger than the family to him. KATE/ nothin’ is bigger! A3 JOE

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Family

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But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were. A3 JOE

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Family

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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

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Family

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Now I say. He’s coming back, and everybody has got to wait for him. A2 KATE

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Matriarch

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This is a zoo, a zoo! A3 CHRIS

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Individualism

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Stop being a philosopher, and look after yourself. A2 KATE

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Individualism

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I told you to marry that girl and stay out of the war. A2 KATE

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Individualism

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This is the land of the great big dogs, you don’t love a man here, you eat him! A3 CHRIS

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Individualism

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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

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Money

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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

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Money

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And he’s got money. That’s important, you know. A2 SUE

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Money

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Now what’s a man going to do with an old dictionary? / You mean he’ll make a living out of that? A1 JOE

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Money

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I’ve got such a funny pain on the top of my head. / It’s not like a headache. A1 KATE

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Guilt and Shame

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You have such a talent for ignoring things. CHRIS to Joe A1

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Guilt and Shame

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Everything they have is covered with blood. GEORGE A2

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Guilt and Shame

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Why me above all? few lines after [not remembering any of it] A1 JOE

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Guilt and Shame

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Oh, no, it broke. Couple of years ago. A1 hammock JOE

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Guilt and Shame

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You’re not even an animal, no animal kills its own, what are you? A2 CHRIS

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Guilt and Shame

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He would forgive me! For what? A3 JOE

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Guilt and Shame

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Forget now. Live. A3 KATE

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Guilt and Shame

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We never took up our lives again. We’re like at a railway station waiting for a train that never comes in. A1 CHRIS

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Past

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Boy, the poplars got thick didn’t they? ANN A1

The trees got thick, didn’t they? GEORGE A2

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Deception

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It’s a tragedy: you stand on the street today and spit, you’re gonna hit a college man. A2 JOE

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Class / Lack of Education

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Brooch versus broach

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Class / Lack of Education

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What is that, every week a new book comes out? A1 JOE

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Class / Lack of Education

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