Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Summary and Analysis: Act II, Scenes 4-5
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Martha Loomis/Pentecost: Herald Loomis’ lost wife and an active member of the local Evangelist church in Rankin
Summary
Reuben and Zonia are playing in the yard early the next morning as the fourth scene opens. Both of them feel that something spooky has been happening lately around the boardinghouse. Reuben tells Zonia that he saw the ghost of Seth’s mother, Miss Mabel. Zonia wonders aloud what being dead feels like and whether the dead might ever come back. She expresses the certainty that her mother is still...
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