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Act 2, Part E: Spadework
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The America Play, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
History, Narrative, and Multiplicity
Race and American Identity
Theater and Reality
Family, Trauma, and Personal Identity
Death, Mourning, and Resurrection
Summary
Analysis
Yet again, the same stage direction repeats: “A gunshot echoes. Loudly. And echoes.”
It is difficult to say exactly why this stage direction would get its own section: perhaps the echoing gunshot is the culmination of the other “Echo” sections, or perhaps it is a sign for Lucy, Brazil, and the audience to know that the man who has popped up on the television is really the Foundling Father.
Themes
