Question

Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

WOMAN ONE

(a little reluctantly)

Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.

(she looks around the circle of faces)

Based on the dialogue and stage directions, what should the reader imagine in this scene?

a woman talking to herself about something she saw
a woman talking to a group of eager listeners
a crowd of people discussing a woman’s story
a man listening to a woman tell a story

Answer 1

Its either #2 or #4 

I would go with #2

Answer 2

The excerpt in from Act 1 of The Monster Are Due on Maple Street, is from The Twilight Zone. There are various acts in this book.

In the given excerpt the dialogue and stage directions shown would make the reader imagine about a woman talking to a group of eager listeners.

Reason:

The woman is talking to a group of eager listeners, is imagined by the readers from the expressions shown in the stage direction that is the way she looks around the circle of faces; a little reluctantly.

The other options are incorrect because:

• If the woman would talk to herself then the expression " she looks around the circle of faces" would not be used

• The dialogues are spoken by woman one, therefore option 3 that is a crowd of people are discussing the story is incorrect.

• The dialogues are spoken by a woman to a group of people not to a single man, it is taken from the expression "she looks around the circle of faces"

Therefore, 2nd option is correct, for the readers imagination in the scene.

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