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...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"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. ...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2132
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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....

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School