True West Quotes

Lee's talking about how our forefathers must have worked. From the get go, Lee drops an image from the past that seems to be something out of a movie.

Mom's connection to the past is not unlike Lee's. Her collection seems to tie into some romantic view she has of the past when her family was young. Lee also romanticizes the past, though his romances generally focus on the West.

For Lee, whatever existed in the past (or whatever he pictures having existed in the past) will always be better than how things are in the present.