Throughout this act the characters are disclosed without reason as in a dream; and the movement of the act represents four terrors of a delirium—anxious effort to make oneself known, a feeling of fetters, climbing and a sudden fall.
Jonathan Builds a Fear
[Before the curtain rises the voices of Jonathan, Hank, Nathaniel and John are heard, muffled and far away.
HANK
He fell on the rocks out there.
NATHANIEL
Put him over here.
JOHN
What was he doing?
HANK