Early on in the play Laura tells her mother that she liked a boy in high school. She tells her mother everything she remembers about him and the nickname he used to call her. Laura says to her mother, “Yes. His name was Jim. (Laura lifts the heavy annual from the clawfoot table.) Here is in The Pirates of Penzance,” (Williams 1662). Laura has almost the exact same conversation later in the play with Jim when they are talking about their time together in high school. Jim and Laura even have a conversation about the nickname he had given her, Jim says, “Jim: But the name that I started to call you—wasn’t a name! And so I stopped myself before I said it. Laura: Wasn’t it—Blue Roses?” (Williams 1688). Similar conversations happen in both the beginning and ending of the play, which foreshadowed Jim’s arrival as the gentleman
Early on in the play Laura tells her mother that she liked a boy in high school. She tells her mother everything she remembers about him and the nickname he used to call her. Laura says to her mother, “Yes. His name was Jim. (Laura lifts the heavy annual from the clawfoot table.) Here is in The Pirates of Penzance,” (Williams 1662). Laura has almost the exact same conversation later in the play with Jim when they are talking about their time together in high school. Jim and Laura even have a conversation about the nickname he had given her, Jim says, “Jim: But the name that I started to call you—wasn’t a name! And so I stopped myself before I said it. Laura: Wasn’t it—Blue Roses?” (Williams 1688). Similar conversations happen in both the beginning and ending of the play, which foreshadowed Jim’s arrival as the gentleman