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1、Glaspell,SusanKeating,1876-1948, TheOutside ElectronicEditionbyAlexanderStreetPress,L.L.C.,2011.©SusanKeatingGlaspell,1917.Alsopublishedin ACenturyofPlaysbyAmericanWomen,RichardRosenPress,NewYork,NY,1979.[AuthorInformation][BibliographicDetails][CharacterI
2、nformation][1917][PL007461]CharactersCAPTAIN of"TheBars"Life-SavingStationBRADFORD, aLife-SaverTONY, aPortugueseLife-SaverMRS.PATRICK, wholivesintheabandonedStationALLIEMAYO, whoworksforher--2--ActSCENEAroominahousewhichwasoncealife-savingstation.Sinceceas
3、ingtobethatithastakenonnoothercharacter,exceptthatofaplacewhichnoonecareseithertopreserveorchange.Itispaintedthelife-savinggray,buthasnotthelife-savingfreshness.Thisisoneendofwhatwasthebigboatroom,andattheceilingisseenapartoftheframeworkfromwhichtheboatonc
4、eswung.Abouttwothirdsofthebackwallisopen,becauseofthebigslidingdoor,ofthetypeofbarndoor,andthroughthisopendoorareseenthesanddunes,andbeyondthemthewoods.Atonepointthelinewherewoodsanddunesmeetstandsoutclearlyandthereareindicatedtherudethings,vines,bushes,wh
5、ichformtheouterunevenrimofthewoods--theonlythingsthatgrowinthesand.Atanotherpointasand-hillismenacingthewoods.Thisoldlife-savingstationisatapointwheretheseacurves,sothroughtheopendoortheseaalsoisseen. (ThestationislocatedontheoutsideshoreofCapeCod,atthepoi
6、nt,nearthetipoftheCape,whereitmakesthatfinalcurvewhichformstheProvincetownHarbor.) Thedunesarehillsandstrangeformsofsandonwhich,inplaces,growsthestiffbeachgrass--struggle;doggedgrowingagainstodds.Atrightofthebigslidingdoorisadriftofsandandthetopofburiedbea
7、chgrassisseenonthis.Thereisadoorleft,andatrightofbigslidingdoorisaslantingwall.Doorinthisisajaratriseofcurtain,andthroughthisdoor BRADFORD and TONY, life-savers,areseenbendingoveraman'sbody,attemptingtorestorerespiration.Thecaptainofthelife-saverscomesinto
8、viewoutsidethebigopendoor,atleft;heappearstohavebeenhurrying,peersin,seesthemen,goesquicklytothem.CAPTAIN I'lltakethisnow,boys.--3--BRADFORD Noneedforanybodytotakeit,Capt'n.Hewasdeadwhenwepickedhimup.CAPTAIN