She frequently tells Tom and Laura that, "One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain-your mother received-seventeen-gentlemen callers!... She is very proud of her past and cannot seem to let go of the prestige of her glorious youth. ... Amanda goes all out, preparing for this dinner by changing the furniture of the apartment and even buying Laura new clothes. ...
I"m just not as popular as you were in Blue Mountain"(2,943). Later Laura goes on to say, "I"m-crippled"(2,947). ... Jim is so up front he flat out tells Laura what is wrong with her. ... He goes on to say, "Why, man alive, Laura! ... All of "em born and all of "em going to die. ...
It is delicious, I used to make it for my gentlemen callers back in Blue Mountain. ... Jim: Oh that Shakespeare is never out of his shell at work, he hardly knows anything that goes on in that warehouse. ... Wow, what a surprise, he didn't tell me anything about it. ... You know what Tom you did it to hurt me, why don't you just go to the movies. Tom: No mother I will not go to the movies, I shall go to the moon, or somewhere even farther. ...
When life in this tenement world becomes unbearable, she recalls the days of her youth when she lived at Blue Mountain and had seventeen gentlemen callers in one Sunday afternoon. ... Laura is lost in this delusional world whilst Amanda and Tom go about their affairs. ... She goes back in the deluded world of her gentlemen callers, when they brought flowers for her when she was ill. ... Jim does not tell Laura the truth about his relationship with another girl, but he went on to compliment Laura "Has anyone told you that you were pretty?". ... Jim kissing Laura further compounded this blissful...
"One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain - your mother received - seventeen! ... Amanda had confronted Tom and asked him where he goes at nights, and he replied, "I go to the movies because - I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies". ... Tom goes on to tell Laura of his experience one evening as he watches a magician, " but the wonderfullest trick of all was the coffin trick. ... Tom would go to the movies or go out onto the fire escape. ...
Amanda sets into what must be an excruciatingly familiar account of the time she entertained 17 gentlemen callers one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain. ... Laura offers to clear the table but Amanda tells her to go study her typewriter chart or practice her shorthand. ... She attributes his attitude of late to the fact that his doing something shameful (and not going to the movies, as he claims) when he goes out every night. ... Yet he goes to work each day and brings home the pay. ... His mother demands to know where he's going. ...
Oh, I could tell you things to make you sleepless! ... Theyre going to blow us all sky-high some night! ... You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers!" ... A mother in the society of to-day, like certain insects, (ought to) go away and die when she has done her duty towards the continuance of the species. ... Once again, it is important not to interpret that as a weakness in Hwang's writing, but as another perspective on how to tell the reader about the secrets. ...
Even though not many people succeed completely, or to the level they want to, others keep trying and keep the Dream going. ... Amanda would tell Laura that she just had "a little defect, hardly noticeable even- although Laura believed the students in her class heard the clumping, and "it sounded like thunder" to her. ... Her mother puts pressure on Laura to receive gentleman callers, go to school, and join a church group. ... Immediately after handing the broken unicorn over to Jim, Laura resumes with her old routine; she goes to the old victrola and plays the old records left by her father....
