1. Marriage of Water and Maggie Polpin Mrs. Shannon
Marriage devoid of love, emotion and intimacy
Marriage of Water and Maggie Polpin Mrs. Shannon
Page 7: “Tisn’t the wreaths will do him any good.” (Maggie)
Page 8: Reference Maggie tells Byrne to commence work on the grave immediately.
Page 10: Maggie to Byrne, “I’m easy about that Byrne, so long as it don’t face towards me.”
Page 10: “There’s enough lies written on the gravestones of Ireland without my adding to them.”
Page 10: Gert says to Maggie “You didn’t hate him that much!” to which Maggie replies, “Didn’t I now!”
Page 12: Maggie says to her sons, “You let him abuse me!”
Page 13: Maggie open the shop on the day that her husband is buried, “We have a shop to open.”
Pages 17/18: Byrne tells the old man and woman that Maggie ‘was wrong for him’, meaning Walter and ‘she only married him for the security/she had no real love for him.”
Page 27: Maggie catches Walter having an affair, “you remember the time she caught him with Moll?” (Katie)
Page 29: Katie says, “My mother didn’t sleep with him for years.”
Page 52: “I had my share of it and then I married the wrong man.” (Maggie to Teddy)
Page 61: Maggie to Teddy; “You won’t get the chance to treat her like the dirt under your feet. The man I married behaved exactly the way you are behaving now.”
Page 69: “Tis only now I know what freedom means.” (Maggie)
Page 81: Maggie’s monologue, “When I married, I was only a slip of a thing. I hadn’t any idea what I was facing.”
Page 81: “My marriage was a lifelong battle” (Maggie)
Page 83: “I’m too long a prisoner.” (Maggie)