Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Act 3, Scene 4 Summary
It's the same day. We're in an abandoned lot in the South Bronx. It's snowing.
A homeless woman is warming herself by an oil drum filled with fire.
Hannah enters pulling two giant suitcases behind her. She asks the woman if this is Brooklyn and explains that she's just come from Salt Lake City.
Hannah says her son was supposed to meet her at the airport but he never showed up.
The homeless woman tells Hannah that she's in the Bronx, and then she starts acting crazy and talking to herself: "YOU DISGUSTING SLURPING FEEDING ANIMAL!" (3.4.6).
She asks Hannah if she knows the prophecies of Nostradamus.
Hannah tells her shut up, calm down, and tell her how to get to Brooklyn.
The woman calms down.
Hannah asks again how to get to Brooklyn.
The woman says she doesn't know because she's never been there.
Desperately, Hannah asks the woman if she knows where the Mormon Visitor's Center is.
Yeah, no problem, says the woman, and tells her exactly how to get there.
Hannah thanks the woman.
"In the new century I think we will all be insane," says the woman.