Gradual changes in Grover's Corners. Horses are getting rarer. Farmers coming to town in Fords; page 86

• Stage manager to Audience
• Telling the passing of time
• Things change, and life always moves on

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense... page 87

• Stage Manager to Audience
• People want to find out who they are descended from
• Humans care about all the wrong things

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names...Page 87

• Stage Manager to Audience
• They are in the graveyard
• People are afraid of anonymity; they always want to be remembered.
• We care about all the wrong things

My, wasn't life awful--and wonderful. Page 93

• Mrs. Soames to no one in particular/audience
• They were talking about how Emily died in childbirth
• PARADOX!!!

I did? Page 95

• Mrs. Gibbs to Emily
• She apparently left Emily and George over three hundred and fifty dollars, but does not remember doing so
• This illustrates that money really doesn't matter

Live people just don't understand, do they? Page 96

• Emily to Mrs. Gibbs
• Emily is wrapped up in what is going on in the world

They're sort of shut up in little boxes, aren't they?

• Emily to Mrs. Webb
• She is realizing the isolation and the self-centered ignorance of the people
• Irony: She is in a box--a coffin!

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough. Page 100

• Mrs. Webb to Emily
• Emily wants to go back
• Every second of life matters
• Paradox

I can't--I can't. Page 106

• Emily to Stage Manager
• She is back in life...sort of
• Life is PAINFUL!

To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always ar the mercy of one self-cenered passion, or another. Now you know--that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. Page 109

• Simon Stimson to Emily
• Emily has returned to the graveyard again
• Now she understands
• Irony: That's the happy existence you wanted to go back to...