quotes alone

• 'mother' 


  dramatis personae
• 'more, more than a dream.' pg20


  abstract noun + verb
• 'she's dreaming about him again. shes walking around at night.' pg12

  abstract noun juxtaposed with concrete.
• 'and suddenly he started to fall. And crying, crying to me... Mom, mom! I could hear him like he was in the room. Mom!.. it was his voice!' pg20

• 'i came out here... i mustve still been asleep. I could hear the roaring like he was going by. The tree snapped right in front of me... and i like... came awake.' pg20

• 'this month is his birthday, his tree blows down, Annie comes. everything that happens seems to be coming back.' pg19


  idea of past permeating the present (ibsonian)
• 'then why is she still single? new york is full of men, why isn't she married?' pg22

  syntactic patterning
• 'she knows what i know, thats why. she's faithful as a rock. in my worst moments, i think of her waiting, and i know again that i'm right.' pg22
• '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.' pg27

• 'because certain things have to be, and certain things can never be.' pg28


  purposely vague, explained later with 'god does not let a son be killed by his father

  anaphoric / epiphora (both?)
• 'be smart now, joe. the boy is coming. be smart.' pg40


  epiphora
• 'whats the difference, dear. there are certain people, y'know, the sicker they get the longer they live.' pg42

• 'georgie, georgie!' pg57

• 'and now your going to sit here and drink some juice... and look like something!' pg58
• 'you don't hate us, George, i know you, you cant fool me. i diapered you.' pg61
• 'your brothers alive, darling, because if he's dead, your father killed him.' pg68

• 'i cant sleep.' pg71

• 'don't, dear. dont take it on yourself. forget now. live.' pg84

• 'they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces.' 

• 'stiffly, staring, seeing'


  sibilant triadic prosodics
• "Mother sits in a chair downstage, stiffly, staring, seeing"


  Strategizing, she is full of intelligence
• 'stops moving...puts her hand to head...moves aimlessly... raises her arms over the audience' 


  proxemics and kinesics portray mother as constantly searching for Larry
• 'reprimanding finger shaking slightly at Keller' pg20


  stage directions foreshadowing how Larry's death confirms Keller 'killed him'