A character in this play remarks that “every easy choice today will have its consequences tomorrow” after complaining that children no longer write with fountain pens. That character in this play warns against idealizing Franklin Roosevelt and presenting History with “sugar all over it.” In this play’s opening monologue, a character tells a story about the sole survivor of a wrecked cargo ship, who navigates while the (*) stars are covered by clouds. A man who gives a lecture on the evils of “gossip” in this play shows his long but clean fingernails to children whom he teaches to play basketball. This play’s cast of four includes the mother of Donald Muller, a student who returns from the rectory with wine on his breath. For 10 points, Sister Aloysius investigates sexual abuse by a Catholic school priest in what play by John Patrick Shanley? ■END■
ANSWER: Doubt: A Parable
<Henry Atkins, American Literature>
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