shootingstar
Member
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2022
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
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BELLIGERENT MAN AT BACK OF AUDITORIUM:
Is there no one in town aware of -
STAGE MANAGER:
Come forward, will you, where we can all here you - What were you saying?
BELLIGERENT MAN:
Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?
MR. WEBB:
Oh, yes, everybody is - somethin' terrible. Seems like they spend most of their time talking about who's rich and who's poor.
BELLIGERENT MAN:
Then why don't they do something about it!
. . .
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act I)
What do you take "somethin' terrible" to mean in this context? What does the author want to express there?
BELLIGERENT MAN AT BACK OF AUDITORIUM:
Is there no one in town aware of -
STAGE MANAGER:
Come forward, will you, where we can all here you - What were you saying?
BELLIGERENT MAN:
Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?
MR. WEBB:
Oh, yes, everybody is - somethin' terrible. Seems like they spend most of their time talking about who's rich and who's poor.
BELLIGERENT MAN:
Then why don't they do something about it!
. . .
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act I)
What do you take "somethin' terrible" to mean in this context? What does the author want to express there?
