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Joe delivers the Grover’s Corners Sentinel to townspeople’s doors. He appears in Act One and in Emily’s flashback in Act Three. The stage manager informs the audience that Joe graduated at the top of his class and earned a scholarship to MIT, but his promising future as an engineer was cut short when he died in World War I.
Joe Crowell Quotes in Our Town
The Our Town quotes below are all either spoken by Joe Crowell or refer to Joe Crowell. 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 Quotes
Want to tell you something about that boy Joe Crowell there. Joe was awful bright—graduated from high school here, head of his class. So he got a scholarship to Massachusetts Tech. Graduated head of his class there, too. It was all wrote up in the Boston paper at the time. Goin’ to be a great engineer, Joe was. But the war broke out and he died in France.—All that education for nothing.
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Joe Crowell Character Timeline in Our Town
The timeline below shows where the character Joe Crowell appears in Our Town. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1
Mrs. Webb also begins to make breakfast in her own home. Outside, Joe Crowell walks down Main Street, delivering newspapers. Joe speaks with Dr. Gibbs, who asks if...
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The stage manager tells the audience that Joe graduated high school at the top of his class and got a scholarship to MIT....
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Act 2
...comes along Main Street, delivering milk as in act one. He runs into Si Crowell, Joe’s younger brother who now delivers the newspaper in Grover’s Corners. Si says it’s too bad...
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Act 3
Joe Stoddard, the town undertaker, enters and runs into Sam Craig, who grew up in Grover’s...
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...her nephew, to Simon Stimson. Sam sees Simon’s grave and recalls his habit of drinking. Joe informs him that Simon took his own life.
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Sam asks what caused the death of his cousin and Joe says she died in childbirth. The funeral procession arrives, including George, Dr. Gibbs, and Mr....
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...Corners as she remembers it from her childhood. She sees Howie Newsome, Constable Warren, and Joe Crowell talking and remarks that Constable Warren has since died.
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