Page 62 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

c. trembling
d. exonerated
e. staunch, penitentiary
f. capacity, looting
g. alarmed, apprehensive
3. 1. c 2. h 3. f 4. g 5. i 6. a 7. b 8. d 9. j 10. e

Questions

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Stage directions
1. The Kellers live on the outskirts of town so they are probably well-off.
Their yard is secluded, meaning they like their privacy.
The house is large and comfortable and nicely painted.
There is a long driveway, which means the house is set back from the road, and also that the grounds are big.
They have an arbor that also serves as a shady resting place in their garden. This trellis has a bulb, a light so the
family can sit outside and read or work, or enjoy a meal or entertainment at night.
Act I
2. The setting of the play is the mid-west of the United States of America, in August 1946.
3. Joe Keller reads the want ads of the Sunday paper.

4. Chris thinks it best to leave Kate alone with her grief.
Joe says, Ain’t that awful? … What’s Mother going to say? … Maybe we ought to tell her before she sees it. He doesn’t
want to see her sad.

5. Frank Lubey, husband of Lydia, was thirty-two but balding. A pleasant, opinionated man, uncertain of himself …, peevish
when crossed, pleasant and neighborly. Frank was more educated than Joe (he knew about book collecting and
Joe did not). Having managed to avoid the draft, he was interested in horoscopes and a good handyman. He was
attracted to Ann.
6. Frank thought Larry could be alive and was checking Larry’s horoscope for the supposed day of his death to see if
it was favorable or not, a favorable day meaning that he could not have died at that time.

7. Chris was prepared to work for a living in the family business but he wanted something beautiful to come home
to in the evenings, a wife, Ann, and children. He told Ann he also believed in people taking responsibility for each
other, and that this was something noble that made ordinary daily life and the disasters of war worthwhile.

8. Joe agreed to help Chris to marry Ann and remain at home, in the face of opposition from Kate, Chris’ mother.
9. a. Kate dreamed that Larry was alive but crashing in his plane.
b. The memorial apple tree the family had planted was destroyed by a windstorm.
Kate took these coincidences to mean that Larry was not dead.
10. a. b.

couple Frank and Lydia Lubey Jim and Sue Bayliss
Kate Joe
neighbors living in old
son son
neighbors
Chris brothers Larry (missing) Kellers Deever home
former fiancee former partners

love each other
Ann Deever family

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