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Joe Crowell
Mrs. Gibbs is a loving wife and mother, who works tirelessly to raise her two children, keep the house clean, prepare meals, do laundry, and carry out other household tasks. She seems happy in her life, but there are hints that she desires something more out of life. She tells Mrs. Webb that she dreams of going to Paris and traveling somewhere where people don’t speak English, but she never gets to go on this kind of trip. Nonetheless, Mrs. Gibbs lives a happy life in Grover’s Corners with her family and community. At the end of the play, when she is dead, she helps Emily adjust to her new existence after death.
Mrs. Gibbs Quotes in Our Town
The Our Town quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Gibbs or refer to Mrs. Gibbs. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.
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And how do you think I felt!—Frank, weddings are perfectly awful things. Farces,—that’s what they are!
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Yes... people are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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Ma, I don’t want to grow old. Why’s everybody pushing me so?
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No!—At least, choose an unimportant day. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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Mrs. Gibbs Quotes in Our Town
The Our Town quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Gibbs or refer to Mrs. Gibbs. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.
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Act 2
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And how do you think I felt!—Frank, weddings are perfectly awful things. Farces,—that’s what they are!
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Yes... people are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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Ma, I don’t want to grow old. Why’s everybody pushing me so?
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Act 3
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No!—At least, choose an unimportant day. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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