《Sherwood Anderson：Mother》.doc

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941, Mother Electronic Edition by Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., 2011 . ? Sherwood Anderson, 1937. Also published in Plays: Winesburg and Others, Charles Scribners Sons, New York, NY, 1937. [Author Information] [Bibliographic Details] [Character Information] [1937] [PL033497] Characters Mary Horton, the Mother George Horton, the Father Mabel Clark, a Dressmaker Fizzy Fry, a Hotel Clerk Act The action takes place in MARY HORTONS room in a shabby little hotel, in a Middle Western American town. It is Sunday afternoon. The room is a rather large one. The wallpaper is faded and streaked but MARY HORTON has made an effort to save the room from complete ugliness. There are a few cheap prints and pictures on the wall and clean lace curtains at the windows. There is a bed in the room and the bed covering is worn but clean. Beside the bed there is a cheap dresser on which is a lamp with a crinkly red tissue paper lamp shade. There are a few chairs, one of which is a rocker. There are doors left and right and two windows at back looking into an alleyway MARY HORTON is a sick-looking woman of forty. She is somewhat thin and faded but there is still fire in her. The impression should be given of a woman who has had a good deal of illness. AT RISE she is sitting in a rocking chair near one of the windows and is dressed in a plain worn black dress with white lace at the neck and sleeves. She sits tense and nervous in the chair Outside in the alleyway voices are heard. Boys are playing ball and there is the sound of a thrown ball striking on a catchers mit. A WOMANS VOICE is heard WOMANS VOICE? Sharply Will and Fred, you come in here. I wont have you playing ball on Sunday. -- 3 -- BOYS VOICE? Oh, Maw. O Gee! WOMANS VOICE? Come in here, I say. New voices are heard just back of the wall of MARY HORTONS room. Two men are walking along a hallway A MANS VOICE? Here it is, Fred. This is my hole. Some hotel to be stuck in on Sunday. SECON