How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
Quote #1
You know, Frank, Mrs. Fairchild always locks her front door every night. All those people up that part of town do. (I.408)
Mrs. Gibbs lives in a part of town where no one locks their doors.
Quote #2
Blowing out the lamp.
They’re all getting citified, that’s the trouble with them. They haven’t got nothing fit to burgle and everybody knows it. (I.399-400)
Doc Gibbs thinks that people are unnecessarily adjusting their lifestyles to a new time. The stage direction suggests that Doc Gibbs wishes to extinguish any notion of urbanization.