ANNIE is now alone on the stage. She turns, gazing How does the setting reflect how Annie feels at this around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, point in the play?
impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted
battlefield. All that remains is a stand with a basin of O The emptiness of the room matches her feeling of
water; and here ANNIE takes up an eyecup, bathes each
loss.
of her eyes, empties the eyecup, drops it in her purse,
The messiness of the room matches the wildness
and tiredly locates her smoked glasses on the floor.
of Helen.
-The Miracle Worker,
William Gibson The messiness of the room matches her feelings of
jealousy
The emptiness of the room gives her the privacy
she needs to bathe her eyes.