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What is the significance of the note about women on Death Row? How do you read the observation that no one has been charged for spontaneous combustion?
The note sets the themes for the rest of the play, both the real-world stakes of women dealing with abusive husbands and the humor of something ludicrous like spontaneous combustion. For some readers, the note may suggest that Loureen killed Samuel and blamed it on spontaneous combustion.
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What is the effect of the argument happening in darkness? How would the argument be different if we could see the couple as they fight?
For some, the darkness allows there to be ambiguity and let us wonder if Loureen did in fact...
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