The Octoroon
This theatrical genre gained popularity in the early 1800s as a style for popular audiences
Melodrama
These two enslaved women are given larger parts
Minnie and Dido
This style of modernism (as seen in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Scream painting, and Machinal) tries make one's surroundings reflect inner feelings
Expressionism
The Filing Clerk yells this through the first scene
Hot Dog
Benjy's land inheritance has been turned into this
a golf course
This theatrical technique has actors posing like still-life paintings
tableau
In the prologue, BJJ says to the audience "You people are my ____"
Therapy
Last line of The Snow Man: "____ that is not there and the ____ that is"
nothing
This is the Young Woman's real name
Helen
Luster spends much of this section looking for this so he can go to the fair
a quarter
Zoe may pass as white for some, but she says her skin bears the "mark" of this biblical character
Cain
Sounded
This writer of Sister Carrie thinks novels should be written on life as it is
Theodore Dreiser
hands
Maury
This character says McClosky does not deserve a trial since he has not acted the Christian, as one does when one enslaves people and takes indigenous land =)
Salem Scudder
The actor who plays The Playwright (or Boucicault) also plays this character in red face
Wahnotee
"Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with _____, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death"
heart trouble
In Maternal, Young Woman recalls a memory of a dog named this
Vixen
Luster gives Benjy this to hold when he's panicked
a jimson weed
This character is the last person on stage in the play, standing triumphantly over his prey
Wahnotee
This act, BJJ says, gives a big spectacle and the moral of the play
Ironically, this is the name of the slavewoman in Desiree's Baby
La Blanche
This is the name of the Spanish song overhead in scene 6, the affair
Cielito Lindo
This character is seen running away from the house at the end of Benjy's section
Ms. Quentin