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The Young Man From Atlanta (Theatre)
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The Young Man From Atlanta is a 1995 play by Horton Foote.The setting is Houston, Texas in 1950. Will Kidder is 64 years old, and an employee of a wholesale grocery firm. He and his wife Lily Dale are mourning the recent suicide of their 37-year-old son, Bill—although most people won't admit that it was a suicide. In any event, Bill went out swimming in a lake one day, and drowned.As the story begins Will is hit with even more bad news. His boss at the grocery calls him in and says that Will is fired. Because this is 1950 and there are no age discrimination laws, Will is told flat-out that the company wants younger blood. Will and Lily Dale are also being pestered by Randy, the eponymous "young man from Atlanta." Randy, as it turns out, was Bill's "roommate", but it is strongly implied that Randy and Bill were lovers back in Atlanta. Now Randy is in Houston, trying to meet Will Kidder. Will is horrified to learn from his wife that she has given Randy thousands of dollars in support. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Clara the maid tells Lily Dale that "that young man from Atlanta" came by that morning, again trying to talk to the Kidders. | |
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Reluctant Retiree | |
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Reluctant Retiree: Will is incensed when he's forced into retirement. It comes at a particularly bad time, since Will has just bought a big expensive house. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Randy is discussed at length; Will remembers how Randy irritated him at Bill's funeral, and Lily Dale admits to meeting him and giving him money. He is said to be at the front door of the Kidder home and even looking through the window. He never appears on the stage. | |
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Suicide by Sea | |
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Suicide by Sea: By lake. Bill apparently parked his car by a lake and walked in until the lake was too deep to touch bottom, whereupon he drowned. As Will himself notes in concluding that it must have been suicide, Bill couldn't swim. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Will expresses special pain because Bill was their only child. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: Is Randy a liar and a con artist? It certainly seems so, from the fanciful tales that Randy told Lily Dale to bilk her out of thousands of dollars. But most of the bad things the audience hears about Randy comes from Carson, a new arrival in town and Pete's grand-nephew. It's Carson who says that Randy is "bad news", that Randy has no family (Randy conned money out of Lily Dale by talking of sick relatives), and that Randy's stories about how Bill turned to religion in Atlanta were lies. However, Randy tells Lily Dale in their last meeting that actually, Carson is the liar. Notably, Carson simply shows up and proclaims himself to be Pete's grand-nephew, but Pete doesn't actually know him. Carson produces a photo of his grandmother, Pete's sister that Pete hasn't seen in many years, and Pete doesn't recognize the photo, although he takes Carson at his word. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
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Like a Son to Me: Will says to Tom, his underling at the grocery company, that "I feel like you're my son in many ways." That just makes it hurt worse when Will finds out that not only has he been fired, Tom is getting his job. | |
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Kindhearted Simpleton | |
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Kindhearted Simpleton: Lily Dale. Her childlike nature is shown by how she addresses her husband, Will, as "Daddy". More to the point, she is completely taken in by Randy's fanciful stories about how he needs money because Bill's death grieved him to the point that he couldn't get work, and he needs money because his mother's sick, and because his sister's husband left her and she has three kids to feed. Lily bought all this hook, line, and sinker, and has given Randy $35,000 in 1950 money. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: It is never stated directly, probably because conservative middle-class people in 1950 Houston couldn't say it directly, but it is very, very strongly implied that Bill was gay and Randy was his lover. It's noted in dialogue that not only was Bill unmarried at age 37, his parents had never even known him to go out with a girl. A friend remembers how Bill was "pretty" as a child and showed no interest in baseball. And Randy, Bill's younger "roommate", offended Will at the funeral by crying more than Bill's mother did. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: As the play opens, Will is mournfully talking to his employee Tom about Bill's death. And things get worse in the first scene, as Will is fired from his job. | |
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