We learn everything about Joe Crowell, Jr. in one moment of time, through the narrator/stage manager. What happens to Joe and when reading it, how did you feel about that? How did the playwright want you to feel?
Death is a discordant beat among the celebration of beginnings of new life, in the beginning of this first act. Why does the playwright include it?
Do you think no scenery and pantomimed actions—the paperboy throwing imaginary newspapers, an imaginary horse delivering imaginary milk bottles, the children pretending to eat breakfast, act, or distract, from the play? Why was the play written this way?
Why is there no inter-personal conflict in this story? (Hint: Wilder is not interested in directing us to observe in-depth personal stories.) What is he directing us to observe?
2007-01-02 06:49:01 · 1 answers · asked by me1026 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
This belongs in Homework, not Books & Authors.
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2007-01-02 06:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋