20. The first is that Jim doesn't know anything about Laura, doesn't know that he's being set up. The second is that Laura is shy, and that they, her family, have gotten used to it and no longer realize that she really is peculiar.
21. She fully reverts to that childhood girlish self, and she is very excited and anticipative (is that a word?) of their caller, while Laura is scared out of her wits.
22. When she learns who it is, she is even more nervous and scared. Amanda fails to see the significance, and brushes off Laura's shyess.
25. Tom talking about gentlemen callers, Laura mentioning Jim to Amanda in the beginning (foreshadowing), the building toward what could have been a happy ending.
27. I think the gentleman caller seems like a polite, nice guy. In class, Ms. Kolb and the more talkative students all expressed that he was kind of a jerk, really full of himself and such. I guess I didn't get that impression when reading the play. At this point, he just seems to be a nice guy who has been disappointed perhaps by his future, and likes to remember when life was better, and when he was popular and "successful" in highschool. I feel that Tom has become very indifferent and somewhat uncaring about his family.
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