Philadelphia Here I Come

• English Lit
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

In Drama, what is known as the FOURTH wall

1. The FOURTH ACT
2. CENTRE STAGE
3. THE PROPS
4. THE AUDIENCE

The two characters in the play – Gar Public and Gar Private – represent both sides of one person. This is used to reveal Gar’s true attitude to leaving home. This is best described as:

1. FEARFUL
2. AMBILALENT
3. EXCITED
4. DREADING

KATE:
'Gar! No matter what you say we just couldn’t live on that much money. It – it’s not possible. We’ll need to have more security than that.'
What does this quote reveal about Kate?

1. She is demanding and stubborn.
2. She is romantic and idealistic.
3. She is pragmatic and realistic
4. She is aloof and disinterested

What does this reveal about Gar Public?
PUBLIC
Like lords – free house, free light, free fuel, free groceries! And every night at seven when we close – except Saturday; he stays open till damn near midnight on Saturdays, making out bloody bills; and sure God and the world knows that sending out bills here is as hopeless as peeing against the wind…

Who is the only male character to actually say to Public Gar: “I’ll - I’ll miss you, Gar.”?

1. Joe
2. Ned
3. Master Boyle

Gar Private’s line “Sure as long as you get to Tenerife for five weeks every winter what interest have you in money?” is directed at the Canon and highlights his…

1. hypocrisy
2. aloofness
3. piety
4. arrogance

Who comes across as the leader of ‘the boys’? (Gar's young friends)

NED

JOE

TOM

GAR

JOE:
'[nervously] And maybe she got the squint straightened out since I saw her last. All the women get the squints straightened out nowadays. Damnit, you could walk from here to Cork nowadays and you wouldn’t see a woman with a' –
What does this reveal about the boys’ attitude to women?

1. They are afraid of women
2. They are quite naïve about women
3. They don't like women
4. They are very relaxed around women

'It doesn’t even matter that it was blue.
But d’you remember one afternoon in May
– we were up there – the two of us –
and it must have rained because you put your
jacket round my shoulders and gave me your hat –'

What is happening in this exchange?

PUBLIC:
[quickly] 'It doesn’t matter who owned it. It doesn’t even matter that it was blue. But d’you remember one afternoon in May – we were up there – the two of us – and it must have rained because you put your jacket round my shoulders and gave me your hat –'

WHAT DOES PUBLIC GAR WANT FROM S.B. HERE?

1. Public desperately wants S.B. to open up to him
2. Public wants to remind S.B. of happier times
3. Public wants to get S.B. to sing again for him
4. Public wants S.B. to go sailing with him

What is unusual about how Gar Public speaks to S.B. here?

PUBLIC
'- for no reason at all except that we – that you were happy. D’you remember? D’you remember?
[There is a pause while S.B. tries to recall]
S.B.
No... no, then, I don't...'

1. That they are close despite it all
2. That there is a communication problem between them
3. That they are very alike
4. That they dislike each other

MADGE:
'I mean it. It – it – it – it just drives me mad, the sight of you! [The tears begin to come.] And I have that much work to do: the stairs have to be washed down, and the store’s to be swept, and your room has to be done out – and – and – I’m telling you I’ll be that busy for the next couple of weeks that I won’t have time to lift my head!
(She dashes off. S.B. stares after her. Then out at the audience. Then, very slowly, he looks down at the paper again – it has been upside down – and turns it right side up.)'
WHAT DOES THIS EPISODE REVEAL ABOUT S.B.