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Alison's House (Theatre)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Alison's House is a 1931 play written by Susan Glaspell.It is a thinly veiled account of the life of Emily Dickinson. In the play, set on December 31, 1899, she is "Alison Stanhope", and she has been dead for 18 years. The wealthy Stanhope family has finally decided to sell off the family home where Alison lived and wrote her poetry. Alison's sister, Aunt Agatha, is fiercely protective of Alison's memory. Alison's brother and family patriarch John Stanhope is selling the house in order to break free from the past and in order to take care of Agatha, who is not well. John's son Eben Stanhope is stuck in an unhappy marriage to Louise, while daughter Elsa has embarrassed the family by running off with a married man. Only son Ted, a cheerful young college student who was only two when Alison died, seems unaffected by her memory and the sale of the house.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Alison fell in love with a married man. John was in a loveless marriage despite loving another woman, Ann's mother. Eben and Louise don't even seem to like each other. Elsa has gone away with a married man. Only Ted seems untroubled, and his banality is a dramatic contrast to the rest of the family. Ted, the youngest child, is symbolic of the new age.
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Extremely Short Timespan: Covers a single afternoon and evening on December 31, 1899.
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Fourth Date Marriage: Ann falls in love with Knowles after one afternoon and decides to go away with him.
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Maiden Aunt: Agatha never married, and the only interest in her life was safeguarding her sister's reputation and legacy.
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As You Know: A ton of this in the early going to establish the family relationships. "Your daughter is my husband's sister."
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